Our client is seeking a .NET Developer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a .NET Developer in the Store Solutions Team, you will be joining the global Direct-to-Consumer team to lay the groundwork for highly scalable solutions for our client’s stores. In this role, you are responsible for implementing solutions and automated processes that allow for rapid delivery of software. You will be part of an agile team responsible for delivering solutions that help run the global business processes within the four walls of the stores in over 20 countries. Some of the solutions that team works on includes Point of sale, In-store Payment and other key initiatives. This is a team that’s always on the offense, working on innovative solutions and creating opportunities and solutions for the business.

.NET Developer Responsibilities:
As part of an agile team help develop large and complex project implementations.
Create best practices and oversee the current engineering practices within the team.
Coach and train other engineers within the team.
Advocate new technologies or solutions within and outside of the team.
Work with rest of the team to create strategies and goals for the team.
Incorporate the latest technologies to aid in developing high quality, scalable applications

.NET Developer Qualifications:
Solving problems and getting things done in a fast pace, evolving environment.
Leadership capability, including ability to motivate and mentor others.
Thinking and planning strategically, with ability to communicate the strategy to a large organization.
Delivering complex, cross functional IT projects and/or programs.
Pulling a diverse group of individuals with different goals together and facilitate productive discussions.

Nice to have:
Experience with Agile development practice.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a 3D Pipeline Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a 3D Pipeline Engineer in Product Engine Solutions you'll use your technical development expertise to create best-of-breed software and integration solutions that enable our client’s diverse Product Creation teams. Utilizing your background in software engineering to work in their fast- paced and dynamic environment you will play a key contributor role in all phases of the software development lifecycle. You'll help manage business-critical teams and backlogs to ensure that we move quickly and deliver solutions that meet the needs of our business partners. You'll collaborate with other software engineers, architects and product owners to create first-class solutions that support our client’s aggressive growth.

3D Pipeline Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
2 years of additional relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree
3-5 years of experience in a technical role.
Experience planning, estimating and executing complex software projects.
1-3 years of experience developing 3D pipelines.
2-5 years professional experience with Python.
1-3 years experience writing tools for 3D modeling and animation software (Maya, Modo, Cinema4D).
Professional experience with various renderers ( Vray, Arnold, Renderman, Octane).
Strong communication, presentation and listening skills.
A generalist mindset and insatiable curiosity are a must.
Willingness to continually learn, experiment and self-improve.
A vocal, assertive and helpful disposition.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accountant
Our Portland client is looking for an Accountant to support general ledger accounting functions for their accounting team. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a company with a longstanding reputation and great tenure while working in a fast-paced, family-like environment.

Accountant Qualifications
Associate degree in Accounting or Finance; equivalent education and experience.
5+ years of accounting experience; AEC background a plus.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with intermediate skills in Excel and Word; knowledge of vlookup, pivot tables, and formulas.
ERP systems knowledge; Deltek a plus.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accountant
Our Vancouver client is looking to add a high energy and dynamic Accountant to support general ledger activities for their team on a temporary basis. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and gain professional experience.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
Healthcare background required.
Financial statements experience.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel, Outlook, and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Great Plains and ADP preferred.
Quickbooks experience preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accountant
Our public works client in Beaverton is looking for a Accountant to support general ledger accounting functions. This role is a great opportunity to gain professional development with a company that offers great benefits.

Responsibilities of the Accountant
General ledger accounting.
Financial reporting.
Assist with financial statements.
Ad hoc analysis.
Support budgeting efforts.
AP/AR review and analysis.
P-card processing.
Support AR functions.
Assist with project accounting functions.
Account and bank reconciliations.
Assist with development and training of accounting staff.
Journal entries.
Assist with audits.
Manage petty cash.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business; equivalent education and experience.
3 years of accounting and general office experience; government background highly preferred.
Knowledge of GAAP.
Budgeting and audit knowledge.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accountant
Our stable Portland client is looking for an Accountant to support commissions for their accounting department. This role comes with great growth opportunity, working in a fast-paced, friendly environment.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
2 years of accounting or bookkeeping experience, with knowledge of reconciliations; transportation background a plus.
Knowledge of GAAP and tax compliance.
MS Office Suite experience, with intermediate skills in Excel and Word; knowledge of pivot tables required.
ERP systems knowledge.
10-key by touch.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Energetic self-starter.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounting Specialist
A large international company with North American headquarters in Portland has an immediate need for an Accounting Specialist to assist with financial transactions. This is an opportunity to gain experience in a large finance organization.

Responsibilities of the Accounting Specialist
Prepare and process financial transactions.
Financial statements and reporting prep.
Assist with the continuous development and implementation of policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Maintain accounting and financial records, both physical and electronic.
Account reconciliations.
Other duties as assigned.

Accounting Specialist Qualifications
Associate Degree in Accounting or equivalent education and experience required.
2 years of accounting experience.
Knowledge of GAAP and SAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounting Specialist
Our Hillsboro tech client is looking for an Accounting Specialist with a can-do attitude to support AP/AR, as well as handle basic banking functions. This role will be working flexible hours in a small office environment.

Accounting Specialist Qualifications
Associate or bachelor's degree in Accounting a plus.
2+ years of accounting experience, with knowledge of accounts payable and receivable.
Knowledge of GAAP preferred.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; SAP or similar preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounts Payable and Order Entry Specialist
Our family-owned and award-winning client is growing their accounting team and has an immediate need for an Accounts Payable and Order Entry Specialist. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a top notch and dynamic team who goes above and beyond to achieve company goals. This company and accounting organization has grown significantly in the past year and this employee will gain a variety of experience. Management takes pride in offering opportunity for development and promotion. Employees enjoy a beautiful work environment and amazing perks. Please apply if you strive for excellence, like to be inquisitive, can offer ideas to improve business, and have a desire to play a key role in supporting this organization as they continue to grow.

Responsibilities of the Accounts Payable and Order Entry Specialist
High volume invoice data entry and processing.
Maintain AP records.
Sales order entry.
Invoice scanning and filing.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accounts Payable and Order Entry Specialist Qualifications
3+ years of accounts payable experience.
Sales order data entry experience.
ERP systems knowledge preferred.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounts Payable Specialist
Our Portland Metro Area client is looking for an AP Specialist to join their team supporting accounts payable and general accounting functions. This role comes with great benefits and will be working in a fun and dynamic environment!

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications
1-2 years of accounting experience with strong AP background.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; NetSuite preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounts Payable Specialist
Our Portland client is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to support their AP team on a temporary basis in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment. This role requires someone who is dedicated, resourceful, and displays a positive attitude.

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent; Associate degree a plus.
1-2 years of AP experience in a mid to large company, with basic account coursework complete.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Oracle preferred.
10-key by touch.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accounts Payable Specialist
Our Pacific Northwest client is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join their team in Portland. This is a great temp to hire opportunity, with potential for professional growth and advancement at a company with a great local reputation.

Responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Specialist
Support general payments functions.
Daily banking functions.
Invoice processing and review.
Process check and payment requests.
Financial statements.
Payment audits.
Financial review and analysis.
Payment verifications.
Set up EFTs.
Maintain AP balance sheets.
Balance sheet and bank reconciliations.
Assist with the continuous development and implementation of accounting and finance policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Respond to AP and other payment inquiries.
Maintain record of voided checks.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications
Associate’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business; equivalent education and experience.
2+ years of accounting, with knowledge of disbursements and AP processing.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
High degree of flexibility.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an Administrative Assistant to join their dynamic team in Tualatin, OR. The Administrative Assistant provides operational support to Prerequisite Coordinators and PSLD by maintaining the group mailbox, logging permit and locate responses, and other clerical activities as required for general operations.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities:Maintain Group Mailbox 60%
Review and route emails for the team.
Post locate notifications and attach permits to work management system.
Insert and update tasks associated with permit notifications.
Attach permits arriving by email to Maximo Clerical Support: 30%
Notify customers of schedule date via email.
Verify accounting for flagging invoices.
Prepare morning reports to municipalities.
Scan and post documents to work management system.
Update spreadsheets for crew availability Locates (10%)
May have the opportunity to prepare and submit locate requests, or locate notifications Storm or event support (infrequent; as needed).
For outages or special events, purchase, prepare, serve and clean up food and utensils.
Participate in company-wide outage drills and preparations.
Work during storms or other outages to support PSLD. CHALLENGES High volume of data entry requires focus, accuracy and speed while maintaining professionalism in correspondence and phone etiquette.
Independently making appropriate decisions and knowing when to seek other expertise.
Multitasking- utilizing and navigating computer applications each day that vary in complexity.
Applying good problem solving skills under time pressures.
Recognize and adapt to diverse work groups and customer groups honoring differing beliefs and value systems.
This can be a very fast paced environment with significant demands.
Adaptability, flexibility, and change readiness is essential to meet changing priorities.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications:
High school diploma plus 5+ years of experience in a progressive administrative support and secretarial positions, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Prior experience in a utility or construction operations a plus.
Advanced knowledge of commonly used PC based computer applications including Word, and Excel.
Intermediate knowledge of grammar, spelling, business correspondence composition.
Basic knowledge of the utility industry and T&D Operations.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Assistant
Our Pacific Northwest client is looking for an Administrative Assistant to provide administrative support to multiple departments.

Responsibilities of the Administrative Assistant
Manage database records.
General reception duties.
Manage incoming calls and correspondence.
Respond to customer inquiries.
Maintain office environment, including supplies and office equipment.
Track office administrative expenses.
Manage calendars and travel arrangements.
Create and disburse documents and presentation materials as requested.
Maintain filing systems, which include HR and other confidential records.
Assist with budget and account analysis and projections.
Act as liaison for help desk; act as go to person in department for network support.
Make copies, run errands, and other duties as assigned.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications
Associate or bachelor’s degree and/or certification in office occupations/technology preferred.
2 years of general office or secretarial experience or equivalent education and experience required.
Strong MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word required.
ERP systems knowledge; Oracle preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

Pay $13 - $14
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an Administrative Assistant to join their dynamic team in Tualatin, OR. The Administrative Assistant provides operational support to Planning Scheduling Line Dispatch related to Right of Way and other permitting and locate requests. May interpret permitting needs for Outage and Damage work types within a Region and prepare appropriate sketches necessary to obtain permits. Manages post-construction notification to jurisdictions and coordinates appropriate follow-up work to ensure compliance with municipal expectations of site restoration.

Administer permit incident tracker Permit Applications: 50%
Apply for and renew Right of Way (ROW) permits, with specialized knowledge of a specific Region.
Apply for and renew permits related to Parking, Lane Closures, Street Use, and other non-ROW permits as requested by the Prerequisite

Coordinator Locates: 20%
Prepare locate tickets.
Provide support to external locators with questions via telephone Outage Management- As Needed.
Participate in company-wide outage drills and preparations.
Work during storms or other outages to support PSLD.CHALLENGES
Working with limited information and a variety of external resources (municipality maps, permitting rules, franchise agreements, Google street view, etc.), ensure PGEs compliance with jurisdictional permitting and traffic management requirements.
High volume of data entry requires focus, accuracy and speed while maintaining professionalism in correspondence and phone etiquette.
Independently making appropriate decisions and knowing when to seek other expertise.
Multitasking- utilizing and navigating computer applications each day that vary in complexity.
Applying good problem solving skills under time pressures.
Recognize and adapt to diverse work groups and customer groups honoring differing beliefs and value systems.
This can be a very fast paced environment with significant demands.
Adaptability, flexibility, and change readiness is essential to meet changing priorities.
Effective time and project management skills, balancing priorities to complete multiple assignments on-time, while meeting both company and customer needs.
Flexibility to function under tight and changing timelines.
Flexibility to understand and react appropriately to political processes and influences.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications:
High school diploma plus 5+ years of experience in a progressive administrative support position, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience with PGE right-of-way permitting for one or more regions.
Valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
Advanced knowledge of commonly used PC based computer applications including Word, and Excel.
Intermediate knowledge of grammar, spelling, business correspondence composition.
Intermediate knowledge of Maximo.
Ability to learn basic storm support processes in Outage Management System.
Basic knowledge of the utility industry and T&D Operations.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Services Assistant
This Administrative Services Assistant position provides administrative, clerical and/or secretarial and confidential support to Tier II Transmission Executive and Executive Assistant team. The position will support any and all of the TA, TS, TF, TE, TO, TP, TT organization(s) and act as liaison between all the Tier 3 Managers and immediate staff to facilitate the day-to day operations of the work group runs smoothly.

Up to 5% travel anticipated, a valid US drivers license is required.

Administrative Services Assistant Responsibilities
Provide a wide variety of confidential administrative/clerical tasks for the managers and staff for the assigned organization, managers and support staff.
Greet and screen visitors; address questions and business involving established policy, take messages, set appointments and/or refer visitors to other personnel as appropriate.
Create draft, edit, and proof documents, correspondence, research, and presentations using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.
Build, maintain and post Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to SharePoint sites.
Proof, review, and when applicable, draft, correspondence and documents prepared for manager signature and validate conformance of the established administrative policies and regulations, confirm proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action.
Provide recommendations and instructions to staff to maintain conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
Attend meetings, record meeting minutes as requested, transcribe and disseminate as needed.
Maintain a tracking system of action items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions. Coordinate and monitor work unit responses to time-critical documents; alert manager / personnel of any concerns or response delays.
Answer and screen telephone calls; respond to most questions and complete most business involving established policy or routine matters; forward questions and matters to appropriate personnel as needed, following up to verify a timely response.
Respond to questions and complete business according to established policy and/or forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff, following up to verify a timely response.

Process and screen incoming and outgoing correspondence to include proof reading, to consist of the following:
Review incoming correspondence and forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff. Verify proper coordination and timely completion of assignments.
Sort and distribute incoming mail to appropriate recipient(s); as requested, review incoming correspondence.
Process outgoing mail and prepare materials for mailing, including providing self-addressed stamped envelopes, when appropriate.
Establish and maintain internal and external communication channels to coordinate smooth flow of information and positive working relationships.
Perform faxing, scanning, photocopying, and work with the print shop to request printing services.
Update and maintain desk reference manual.
Serve as back-up to Tier II and Tier IV level Administrative Assistants as needed.
Come up to speed quickly on manager and organizational priorities in order to track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability, confirming established targets are met. Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Capital Management (HCM) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines. Review and update project trackers (performance, training, etc.) for the manager, alerting appropriate parties of any noted issues / concerns.
Serve as liaison between organizations, work units, and management support staff. Keep up to date on issues, priorities, and sensitivities affecting work of the organization through consistent communication with the manager, frequent interaction with other managers, and outside contacts.
Coordinate with and provide administrative guidance to lower-level contract support personnel; may delegate assignments to lower level contract administrative personnel at the request of the manager.

Administrative Team:
Organize and coordinate Organizational Administrative Team Meetings.
Attend mandatory Administrative Team Meetings.
Participate as a team member and in team meetings both professionally and collaboratively.
Work as a team member to:
Standardize, streamline and improve overall Administrative processes throughout the organization.
Help resolve organizational administrative issues and work on solutions as a group.
Complete team work assignments.

Proactively coordinate managers’ daily Outlook calendars and schedules with full responsibility for scheduling and prioritizing Tier III and IV managers’ appointments, meetings, conferences and calendar:
Coordinate appointments, including commitments of time. Advise manager of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions.
Organize, plan, prioritize, coordinate, schedule and verify appointments, meetings (in-person, phone conferences, web-based), conferences, and training for managers and other staff (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection, and other meeting supplies). This may include drafting agenda and other meeting materials and developing background information for review, consideration and finalization by appropriate manager / personnel.
Accept meeting invitations, assist with outside visitor requests and schedule interviews.
Schedule and arrange meetings, conferences and training, including associated logistics and any necessary equipment (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection equipment, etc.).
Assist, compile, organize and verify appropriate files, notes and other materials are in order and ready for use at meetings, appointments, etc.
Draft agendas, coordinate speaking points, make arrangements for guest(s) / guest speakers and research and draft background information / materials as requested.
Arrange for representation by others if manager’s time and priorities make necessary.
As requested, attend and take meeting minutes / notes, transcribe / draft and distribute as appropriate.
Inform manager and staff of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions.

Prepare CFTE employee assignment extension documents; implement, oversee and complete related documentation, and submit for proper review and approval, while performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approval.
Designated as a proxy for the DOE performance management system. Coordinate and assist managers with development of annual managers’ and employees’ performance appraisal plans by assisting in implementing, completing, and tracking documentation management. Schedule and track to completion all managers’ and employees’ progress reviews, performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approvals. Apply strong familiarity with manager’s performance contract to prioritize and track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability and to assist in ensuring established targets are met. Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Capital Management (HCM) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines.

Arrange travel (domestic, invitational and foreign), such as airline arrangements, hotel accommodations, and rental car and shuttle reservations, for Manager, Lead and staff as needed, which may include:
Assist in preparing and submitting passport documentation as necessary.
Assist management and staff in setting up profiles in the travel system (currently Concur).
Prepare / draft necessary foreign and domestic forms associated with travel.
Prepare and process travel authorizations and vouchers for group managers and staff using Concur.
Validate that travel is complete and process travel documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with federal and travel procedures and policies.
Track, monitor and notify manager and subject personnel of needed approvals, signatures or other actions to enable timely reimbursement processing and reporting.

Coordinate with managers and staff to coordinate Time & Attendance per established procedures, which may include:
Prepare and review federal personnel time and attendance reporting to verify accuracy for certification by manager(s) and supervisor(s) using the Business Enterprise System (BES), HRMIS and Fieldglass.
May serve as timekeeping power user (able to input time for others as requested).
Maintain and reconcile employee leave calendar submissions with payroll.
Check leave slips to verify accuracy using organizational leave calendars and other documentation. Verify that time has been approved.
Using Fieldglass, review time sheets for contract personnel to verify that reporting is accurate.
Verify time and attendance procedures, policies and practices, including any special time recording requirements (admin leave, holidays, etc.) are communicated to management and staff in a timely manner.
Assist with scheduling interviews through Fieldglass; preparing interview packets for assigned manager(s).

Provide overall administrative support to staff members by acting as the liaison with HCM, IT, SLMO, Workflow Connection, Security, Safety, Motor Pool, Facilities / Space Management and administrative services groups to process, coordinate, request and track:
Office moves and workstation adjustments using Workflow Connection.
Onboarding activities for new contract and/or federal personnel.
Computer, software upgrades IT equipment and other resource requests.
Computer, copier, and printer maintenance.
Requests for needed office supplies and distribute to appropriate staff per established procedures.
Coordination of badge return to SLMO.
Coordination of cell phone requirements and inventory for staff, including ordering, receiving, service setup, delivery, collection.
Serve as organization’s central point of contact for accident reporting, including collection, correction, and distribution of required documentation, and communication with employees, managers, safety office, HCM, and other resources regarding policy, regulations, etc.

Maintain office supply stock. Act as a point of contact for troubleshooting, configuration, inventory, and maintenance of office systems and processes.
Coordinate maintenance for Government Vehicles (GOV) assigned to the organization; drive GOVs to and from service appointments and report mileage monthly.
Maintain the organizational SharePoint site including updating changes and adding new content.
Establish, maintain, and administer SharePoint organization, team and other meeting/project sites including setting up document repositories, calendars, workspaces, and tracking lists. Manage content and permissions.
Maintain a tracking system of suspense items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions utilizing SharePoint. Coordinate and direct work unit responses for time-critical documents.
Maintain all records management within SharePoint, including physical and electronic official files, retention and conformance.

Manage all records in accordance with the Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) policy and procedure and compliance requirements:
File and disperse documents/letters to appropriate personnel.
Validate that official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.
With oversight and approval of the manager / federal personnel, provide an annual review and inventory of official files and maintain the organizational file outline.
Review and process Transmittals for Administrator/CEO Approval (TACs) for assigned organizations and ascertain conformance to administrative policies, procedures and regulations. Verify proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action. Advise and provide guidance to confirm conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
May coordinate or assist with organizational and events such as: presentations, retirements, project or employee recognition celebrations, and Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) events.

Administrative Services Assistant Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent is required.
Associates Degree in Secretarial Science, Administrative Management or related field is preferred.
6 years of demonstrated administrative/clerical experience is required.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
Working knowledge of SharePoint or similar system.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Android Developer
Our client is seeking an Android Developer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As part of the Innovation team, you will be responsible for creating, developing and deploying everything from early prototypes to full blown production services and experiences designed to test the boundaries for how our client engages with consumers digitally.

Their culture is collaborative and results driven. They adopt the fail-fast operating model; measuring success through KPIs against our products and from the learnings of our failures. They operate across all areas of the business and focus on end-to-end solutions that deliver game changing impact.

Android Developer Responsibilities
Define, design and develop some key innovation initiatives.
Responsible for working on everything from early POCs to full blown consumer facing apps and SDKs.
Lead by example, evangelize our culture, and be an advocate of new technology and development techniques.

Android Developer Qualifications
Android, Software engineering, unit testing REQUIREDPassion for technology and learning, a natural curiosity, with a love for delivering real-world results in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent verbal/written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
Extensive hands on experience developing iOS applications with a strong working understanding of Swift.
Experience designing mobile applications to consume server-based REST APIs.
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests.
Commitment to and hands-on experience in performing technical code reviews.
Deeply experienced with mobile development and a team player that thrives in a collaborative agile environment.
You have a proven knowledge of software engineering fundamentals and an appetite for continuous learning and teamwork.
You are out in front of the latest technology trends and know how and when to apply them.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Assembly Technician
Our client is seeking an Assembly Technician to join their team in Portland, OR. This role assembles and tests electronic products having both hardware and software systems.

Responsibilities
Works as directed on daily work assignments to meet customer commitments.
Follows Operations Methods Sheets in order to build product properly and minimize errors.
Uses written and verbal communication to relate equipment and process information to other team members and support functions.
Changes direction to accommodate work priorities as needed.
Performs visual inspection of all components and finished subassemblies and finish products to specified criteria to ensure high quality.
May work in other work centers and/or departments.
Mechanical assembly of products can include:
Mechanical assembly of sheet metal enclosures.
Simple soldering.
Strip and tin wires.
Wire to solder cups in connectors.
Install hardware where needed.
Follow prints.
Operation of light machinery.
Pre-testing of equipment before assembly.
Cycling of equipment through electronic and environmental testing equipment.
This position requires physical attendance at assigned job site.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Minimum of three years’ experience utilizing basic assembly equipment and tools, e.g., strippers, crimpers, cutters, soldering iron, screw drivers, drills.
Read and understand drawings.
Read and understand wiring schematics.
Follow procedures.
Adapt to new processes.
Comfortable working directly with engineers.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Able to build cables, connectors and other simple electronics assemblies from sketches and other informal documentation.
Electro-mechanical assembly skills.
Work well under pressure.
Previous experience using a personal computer with a Windows operating system required.
Demonstrated ability to multi-task.
Demonstrated ability to solve problems, think independently and act innovatively.
Demonstrated self-motivation.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time.
Ability to work overtime as required.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 6:30am-3pm
Pay Rate: $16-20/hr

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Assistant Controller
We are working with booming company who is ranked #1 nationally in what they do. This dynamic organization has an immediate need for an Assistant Controller to work in a very sharp and tight knit team with excellent longevity. This role is offering a short term growth path to the Controller role for the right person. They offer above average salary for a role at this level and excellent benefits.

Responsibilities of the Assistant Controller
Manage and prepare budgetary and financial projections.
Support the continuous development and implementation of accounting policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Manage financial and accounting policies and procedures.
Financial reporting.
Maintain budgets in system.
Manage financial planning tools.
Gross margin analysis.
Prepare acquisition packages and reporting.
Cash flow and profitability analysis and projections.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Assistant Controller Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent education and experience required; CPA preferred.
5-7 years of accounting experience with a home-building or residential development background required.
Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of GAAP.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Associate Material Innovator to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Associate Material Innovator - Textiles you will join our client’s Footwear Materials Innovation (FMI), a team focused on driving material solutions to targeted footwear application areas within FMI. You will be asked to support prototyping and technical problem solving on cross-functional initiatives where engineered textile technology plays a key role. The project teams will be made up of people from across the matrix including Development, Engineering, Design, Sports Research, Concept Creation, etc. for Running, Basketball, and Global Football. Strong technical capabilities and experience with textile and fiber science, prototyping, process engineering, and testing are required. Capabilities in polymers and/or mechanical engineering are desirable, but not required.

Associate Material Innovator Responsibilities:
Support the delivery of NXT projects through prototyping and technical problem solving in collaboration with the broader team as the materials specialist.
Identify vendors of fiber and textile materials, curate, and keep an organized inventory.
Create DOEs per team direction, execute, track and summarize results.
Coordinate and execute processing trials using footwear construction methods.
Operate specialized footwear and textile machinery.
Test materials and components in our client’s internal and external labs.
Curate and disseminate results to the broader team in a clear, concise manner.

Associate Material Innovator Qualifications:
Hands-on materials experience, especially material characterization and testing.
Mechanical Engineering or Machinery experience required.
Bachelor's degree in Textile and Fiber Science, Material Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related field is preferred, but alternative educational qualifications will be considered, i.e. technical certification and years of experience.
A minimum of 3 years experience working with textile materials and a solid understanding of its technology and related state-of-the-art fabrication methods is preferred, but entry-level applicants with strong organizational capacity will be considered.
Strong attention to detail, proven ability to organize, prioritize, and deliver results.
Knowledge of material supply base, vendors, and industry-standard test methods and analytical techniques.
Strong interpersonal effectiveness and data-based decision making (i.e. statistical methods) track record.
Enjoy working in a collaborative environment with diverse teams and skill sets to drive application initiatives.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Avaya Telecom Engineer
Our client is seeking an Avaya Telecom Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR.

Required Qualifications
(Note: 7 years’ total experience can meet qualifications below if all qualifications are obtained concurrently in that same span of time).
Minimum 7 years’ direct experience supporting Avaya telecommunications environments in greater that 5000 endpoint, multi-location organizations.
Minimum 5 years’ direct and demonstratable experience supporting Avaya/Verint call center applications. Candidates without this experience will not be considered.
Minimum 3 years’ direct experience with in the development of telecommunications roadmaps in the Avaya space.
Minimum 1-year direct experience with SIP service install, configuration and management.
High aptitude for interpreting and using technical documentation and authoring or updating technical documents and procedures using Word, Excel, Visio, and Wiki.
Experience organizing and reviewing the work of other technical IT staff. Team lead experience preferred
Experience in training junior personnel.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical staff and managers.
Self-starter, with strong organizational and task management skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
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Azure Engineer
Our client is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Azure Engineer to help with the journey to the cloud.They need someone who's passionate and knowledgeable about crafting solutions in Azure using Office 365 (Exchange, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint) and Azure AD (Azure AD Connect, AD FS, Conditional Access, Pass-through Authentication, Azure Application Proxy). This role is located in Spokane, WA or Hillsboro, OR.

Responsibilities
Research, analyze, recommend, and implement solutions within their defined scope. Requires the ability to systematically isolate technical issues and provide outstanding technical support.
Prepare system solution designs, implement complex enterprise-class systems and applications, analyze the performance of infrastructure to assist with capacity planning and perform system upgrades, and monitor the health of all systems, infrastructure and applications.
Mentor and train others.
Continue to learn and develop your Azure, IT and communication skills.
Learn Agile in an IT environment.
Help build a foundation for DevOps.
Craft solutions to automate existing tasks/jobs.
Assist with developing cloud standards and documentation.
Demonstrate compliance with all bank regulations for assigned job function and applicable to designated job responsibilities -- knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Maintain a working knowledge of Bank's written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.

Qualifications
Experience engineering Office 365 business and IT solutions in Azure.
A strong background with Exchange Hybrid environments and AD is required.
Skilled in crafting solutions using PowerShell.
Knowledge of Cloud Design Patterns and how to apply them in Azure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Strong coordination, organization, troubleshooting and communication abilities required.
Proven experience with troubleshooting principles, methodologies, and issue resolution techniques.
MCSA/MCSE/Microsoft Certified certification.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
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Our client’s Digital Engineering, Quality & Delivery Operations, Responsive Application Development team is looking for an experienced Backend Services Java Application Engineer to design and develop backend solutions with a focus on email capabilities and data analytics. This position is located in Beaverton, OR. As a member of our innovative group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to be part of an evolving project and reshape strategic operations reporting.

Backend Services Java Application Engineer Responsibilities:
Throughout the process, you will work collaboratively with our team of engineers, partner with other teams such as Quality and Operations.
The candidate will work with talented engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment to deliver new features.
Deployment, support and monitoring of new platforms and application stacks.
Participate in new technology evaluation, design and development of highly scalable distributed databases.
Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward, getting ahead of user needs, and working hard to transform, innovate, and continuously improve.

Backend Services Java Application Engineer Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure in a high volume of customer-facing environment.
Spring skills as well as ElasticSearch (not the AWS version) and +5 years of experience with demonstrated capability with AWS instance management.
Strong core Java and Java EE and object-oriented programming and design skills.
Experience with Java web frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC.
Experience writing Java libraries and developing REST APIs (i.e. writing code/services meant to be used by others).
Experience with AWS, ElasticSearch, writing hand-crafted SQL, PL/SQL.
Familiarity with Tomcat, Weblogic, JBoss, Jetty, etc.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Phenomenal debugging and testing skills.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams.
Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality.
Aptitude to independently learn new technologies.
Passion for delivering the best quality product regardless of project scope.
Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale to support diverse clients on high powered machines.
Consultancy approach to create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
Systematic multitasking problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and drive.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, automation, software design, and database management.
Advanced understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Experience with scripting languages and such as Shell and Python and multi-process architecture.
Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
Conduct on call duties as need for urgent matters.
This position requires deep knowledge of Java and Spring Boot.
You must be comfortable with rapidly evolving designs, requirements, and have excellent interpersonal skills.
The individual must be self-motivated, an amazing problem solver and a fast learner.
Very strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in writing commercial grade apps for high availability systems is a must. Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Benefits Specialist
Our privately-owned client has been serving the Pacific Northwest for over 60 years. They are looking for a Benefits Specialist to provide support and administration of LOA functions. This a great opportunity to join a company that values training and mentorship, as well as a healthy work/life balance.

Responsibilities of the Benefits Specialist
Leave of absence administration.
Respond to employee and customer inquiries regarding benefits and insurance.
Manage leave of absence and medical accommodation requests.
Create benefits and payroll reports.
Assist with entering system data; audit and merge as needed.
Manage LOA training materials and sessions.
Prepare leave of absence administration documentation and presentation materials.
Assist with the continuous development and implementation of benefits administration policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Other job duties as assigned.

Benefits Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor's degree preferred.
2-3 years of benefits plan administration experience required; healthcare background preferred.
Knowledge of HIPAA, COBRA, and FMLA.
CEBS, CBP or PHR, SPHR certification preferred.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP or HRIS systems knowledge; Oracle preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

Billing Specialist
Our Pacific Northwest client is looking for a Billing Specialist to process manual billing and exceptions for their team in Portland. This is a great opportunity to gain professional experience on a temporary basis with a stable and reputable company in the public sector.

Billing Specialist Qualifications
Associate or bachelor's degree preferred.
1 year of billing experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Intermediate ERP/CIS systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a BIS Architecture Consultant to join a diverse team in Hillsboro, OR. This team is made up of technical experts in building a world-class security technical advisory and thought-leadership organization providing exceptional and practical, technical, and logistical direction to its internal customers; enabling the company to move and innovate rapidly while minimizing risks to the Brand. Their focus is in the areas of Security Architecture, Secure Development Lifecycle Management, Application Security (WWW and Mobile), Cloud Security, Risk and Compliance, and Business to Business Security within company Business Units. They work under a center-led business-partner model, and as such, strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills are a must.

BIS Architecture Consultant Responsibilities:
Provide critical input and guidance to ensure that business is aligned appropriately with Corporate Information Security when considering key priorities such as business requirements, industry threat landscape, and risk appetite.
Work closely with the business end-to-end in releasing secure and compliant infrastructure, applications, and experiences at the speed of business.
Partner with business and technology to provide expert security guidance into design and implementation of business capabilities.
Consult with both technology and business teams to identify priorities and security capability requirements, and incorporate these requirements into the security strategy.

BIS Architecture Consultant Qualifications:
Strong technical knowledge and confidence in communicating with both technical audiences and non-technical audiences.
Development/Cloud/Application Security experience.Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to communicate across all areas and levels of the business and to comprehend complex business initiatives.
Ability to adjust communication style and approach, from strategic leadership to highly technical audiences.
Proven ability to pull a diverse group of individuals with different goals together and facilitate productive discussions driving towards results.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; proven experience in identifying solutions for complex problems.
Motivated self-starter who is has a proven track record of taking ownership of information security challenges and driving them to resolution.
Open minded problem solver with the ability to blend a myriad of thoughts and ideas into actionable success.
Hands on experience implementing solutions in and working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, DO, and others).
Experience with SDLC, CI/CD and development best practices.
Experience developing with any number of languages, including but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Python, C/C++, Go.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience preferred.
CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, SANS preferred or equivalent related work experience.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Brand Protection Manager to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. In the role of Brand Protection Manager, you are a liaison between Category partners and Product Security teams. This position will execute key product security engagement activities including focus groups, standing meetings and ad hoc Product Security Standards review sessions. The core functions of responsibility include but are not limited to: supporting product security awareness at WHQ, execution of enterprise level projects, and communicating product security trends and opportunities. This role will report to the Sr Manager, Product Security.

Brand Protection Manager Responsibilities:
The primary liaison between Product Security and business categories.
Provide end to end support by ensuring product security standards and policies are being properly executed with category partners.
Drive enhanced awareness and accountability to reduce the occurrence of theft and unauthorized leaks of information with category partners.
Perform the initial post incident follow up into breaches of product security occurring in their category and partner with the Global Investigations if required.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Branding and Digital Specialist
Our client is seeking a Branding and Digital Specialist to join their team in Portland, OR. The primary purpose of this role is to strategize, design and execute the employer brand in digital media strategy to ultimately increase prospect engagement and candidate flow, and influence and drive number of hires in the practice.

Responsibilities
Live and exemplify the Five Principles within self and team.
Design and produce digital and multi-channel assets for recruitment campaigns, specifically recruitment marketing landing pages, email campaigns and social media content assets by leveraging available technology and in collaboration with cross-departmental and external partners.
Strategize, design and activate digital employer brand and recruitment multi-channel campaigns. Track and report performance to continuously improve and drive successful outcomes.
Build and execute employer brand social media strategy through content development, social monitoring and social community engagement.
Maintain careers website – analytics, content and design updates for improved performance, in partnership with external and cross-departmental partners.
Conduct competitive research, digital platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification. Share feedback with TA and internal stakeholders on the effectiveness of various sources and proprietary intelligence around marketplace and its attraction strategies.
Assist with coordinating industry, student and recruitment events, such as industry conferences, open houses, career fairs, and recruitment training events and actively participate in face-to-face networking and online forums in order to broaden knowledge and perspective.
Actively share thought leadership on social media. Influence social media growth through daily channel engagement.
Keep up-to-date of next-generation sources of and approaches for generating pipelines.
Work collaboratively with Marketing, Corporate Affairs, and P&O on strategy and execution of innovative and creative employer branding initiatives.
Have a thorough understanding of the Employer Value Proposition, promote the brand as an employer of choice to both internal and external audiences.
Track budget and recruitment marketing calendar.

Qualifications
3 years of experience in talent acquisition, marketing, and digital marketing.
Recruitment Marketing: media buy, content development, placement, tracking and reporting.
Social Media: content development, scheduling and posting, monitoring, tracking and reporting.
Digital: oversee careers website, ATS and systems integration, building landing pages, email campaigns and other digital assets.
Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
Project timelines and work volume/deadlines may often require more than 40 per week to complete essential duties of this job.
Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
The noise level in the work environment is moderately high.
Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.
Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds.
Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard and operate equipment.
The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.
Environment where pets are present.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Build Engineer
Our client is seeking a Build Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR.
This role is part of the Product Engineering group (PE)— a high-functioning team of creative, collaborative, motivated, and professional driven individuals. The DevOps Engineer, Jenkins works directly with the DevOps team to ensure the stability and performance of the Jenkins infrastructure and supports development teams building, and maintaining Jenkins builds and pipeline.

Responsibilities of the build Engineer
Manage, configure, and patch Jenkins Masters and build agents.
Automate system processes and develop tooling for easing administration burden.
Implement security best practices across Jenkins masters and build slaves.
Support development teams building with Jenkins builds and pipelines.
Work with colleagues to optimize overall Jenkins system performance.

Qualifications of the Build Engineer
2+ years of experience administrating Jenkins Masters and build agents.
Proficiency with one of the following programming languages: Groovy, Java, NodeJS.
Experience with Docker and orchestrating Docker jobs.
Experiencing working with development teams to facilitate code building and deployment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Business Analyst, you will be a key member of the team, working with the business and its stakeholders to provide them with new solutions, enhancements and support in the area of Vendor Information Management.Your ability to understand requirements and drive meetings toward results is critical in this role, as is your general written and verbal communication skills.

Business Analyst Responsibilities:
Ability to successfully elicit from appropriate business partners all forms of requirements (e.g. functional, performance, usability, compliance, regulatory, technical).
Ability to take complex real-world problems, understand and communicate them and translate them into feasible solutions.
Experience, interest and adaptability to working in a Lean/Agile delivery environment.
Consultancy approach to your work.
Commitment to collaborate with subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Able to develop technical solutions based on requirements from business units, technology teams and support teams.
Take pride in your work, showing high attention to detail and build quality at the beginning of the development process.

You will work on small to medium size projects in the area of Vendor Information Management.
You will collaborate with Solution Directors, Product Managers, Product Owners, Enterprise and System Architects, and various Scrum Team partners to deliver process and technical solutions.

Business Analyst Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other relevant subject area preferred.
2 years of professional experience.
Prior experience in supporting and developing with various technologies – SAP, Fusion, Coupa, Concur, Aravo, Informatica, Pega Systems, HTML, Spring, Python, AWS, etc.
Experience working as a Business (System) Analyst on multiple projects and business functions, in both large (1-year+ projects and small projects of >3 months) required.
Excellent analytical skills and ability to translate business functionality and opportunities into clear, precise and easy-to-read functional specifications is critical required.
Strong business acumen to quickly learn new business processes and understand how IT needs to support the business in achieving revenue and profit goals required.
Growing ability to pull a diverse group of individuals with different goals together and facilitate productive discussions including working within virtual and globally disbursed teams required.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment required.
Ability to work with onshore/offshore teams, and communicate using virtual communication tools (phone, conferencing, online meeting) required.
Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical IT teams required.
Lean experience with applied principles and methods preferred.
Ability to work flexible hours required.
Ability to pass a 7-year background investigation required.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Business Insights Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Business Insights Analyst for Global Consumer Services you will be responsible for operational reporting and insights to make their consumer experience world-class. Consumer Services collects consumer feedback, tracks contact center key performance indicators (KPI’s), and provides voice of the consumer insight back to the business for process and consumer experience improvements. In this role you will drive the data analysis and exploration on contact center KPI’s and key contact drivers ensuring that their client continues to deliver premium service for their consumers and members globally. You will play a critical role in building and maintaining their reporting solutions and tools that allow them to drive insights into action faster and at scale. In conjunction with their cross-functional partners, this role will help accelerate their greatest opportunities and put decision-making closer to the consumer, so they can move at the speed of the marketplace.

Business Insights Analyst Responsibilities:
Verify correctness and completeness of data models, data relationships, data mappings and definitions.
Manage various consumer insights solutions and tools to collect relevant data and information.
Participate in research and analytical work to identify, resolve and implement solutions to key business issues that arise.
Participate and lead aspects of the development of business scorecards and actionable insights for key stakeholders including ongoing business dashboards that track the health of the business.
Leverage reporting tools and raw data to analyze consumer engagements/feedback (phone, chat, email, surveys) to identify trends and/or patterns to derive insights that impact our client’s website as well as company-wide strategies.
Continually seek ways to data mine internal and external quality results, sales, and operational data to improve efficiency, develop individual team members, and to improve the overall consumer experience.
Continually seek opportunities to create and enhance reports based on results and changes within the evolving business.

Business Insights Analyst Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or experience in a related field.
Minimum 2-3 years of relevant professional experience with an emphasis on business reporting and analytics with large amounts of data required.
2+ years of experience in broad-based business analytics roles developing high-impact management and operational reporting.
Ability to work independently in fast-paced environment, balancing multiple projects with tight deadlines.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required; Mac / Keynote skills a plus.
Advanced skill level in SQL, familiarity with R, SAS, or Python a plus.
Technically proficient on reporting tools like Tableau and PowerBI.
Ability to navigate large amounts of information and “connect the dots” from various data sources.
Ability to communicate well through written and verbal communication.
Detail orientated and intrinsic passion toward success and high-quality delivery.
Previous experience as an analyst in a contact center environment preferred.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Intelligence Developer
The BI Developer will play a significant role in the technical development and maintenance of the data warehouse systems. The BI Developer is responsible for working with product management, engineering, and technology operations to share in responsibilities for database design and development, database standards, and meeting product service levels. Their purpose is to create a high level of customer satisfaction by assuring the quality, stability, and performance of the software product infrastructure and offerings.

The position will interface primarily with internal staff and will have a high level of impact on customer satisfaction based on customers’ experience with company product, the release process, and customer service levels. The nature of the position entails frequent new and varied work situations with a high degree of complexity. There are some established procedures, but the individual will be expected to operate with little direct supervision.

Business Intelligence Developer Responsibilities
Interface with internal teams to understand requirements for data capture and processing.
Propose, design, and build database packages, processes and data structures observing best practices for performance, data integrity, and security.
Ability to understand and foreseen challenges and tasks necessary to move from single to multi-tenancy systems.
Determine best solutions to meet corporate data management needs, including batch data exports and other data services.
Support enterprise-wide data initiatives. Grasp the strategic significance of activities performed, and is motivated by accomplishing these objectives.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Must be a role model of Core Values: People; Client Focused; Trust; Innovation; Fun; Excellence and Teamwork.
Strong motivation to create customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality end-user applications and by solving real problems for real users.
Self-starter able to work with little supervision.
Ability to handle difficult situations with diplomacy and tact.
Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to diagnose and solve problems creatively.
Ability to communicate clearly to varied audiences in writing, by phone, and in person.
Must work well in fast-paced, constantly changing environment.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Intelligence Lead
Our client is seeking a hands-on Business Intelligence Lead (MSBI Stack), who thrives in a collaborative work environment. This role involves working across the entire BI lifecycle, from source data analysis, Extract Transform Load (ETL) development, through to Analysis and Reporting Services implementation, specifically with Microsoft SSAS & SSRS. The ideal candidate would be a self-starter, thorough in their work, and willing to share best practices with a growing team. Additionally, the candidate would act as mentor on best practices both for the development team and for the business in their acceptance of the new BI solution, helping them become more mature in terms of the understanding and correct utilization of their own data assets. This role is located in Portland, OR.

Business Intelligence Lead Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of the Senior Business Intelligence Developer is the analysis, design, programming, testing, integration and production support of the Business Intelligence Next Generation (BING) platform. The next phase of this project in 2018 will focus primarily on the build-out of the BING Analysis Services Tabular Model and Reporting Services for field reports.
Participate in the entire lifecycle for Business Intelligence solution delivery.
Provide Business Intelligence solutions including analytics, dashboards and reports to support in making informed decisions that increase the bottom line through improved quality and services.
Design, develop and deploy and tune SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Models (SSAS).
Design, develop and deploy SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports, utilizing DAX to create reports from Tabular Model.
Design, develop and deploy ETL processes using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
Analyze and verify technical requirements for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
Apply software engineering concepts and best practices to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, extensibility, and flexibility.
Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications – verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors and other stakeholders.
Champion code quality, integrity and reliability throughout the department by designing and promoting best practices.

Business Intelligence Lead Qualifications
BS or BA in computer science, business, or equivalent is required.
1+ years of lead experience.
3+ years’ experience delivering Business Intelligence solutions using the MSBI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).
Position requires a high degree of adaptability. Candidate will be faced with a variety of issues on a day to day basis and will be expected to respond to these issues appropriately while dealing with multiple priorities and task assignments.
Work to be performed in a normal office environment during regular business hours. Extended work hours when necessary to support global development or to meet deadlines.
Candidates must have analytical and problem-solving skills in addition to a good grasp of both the technical and business factors of Business Intelligence Solutions Delivery.
Strong understanding of Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse concepts, methods and tools.
Proven experience designing, developing and deploying Enterprise Business Intelligence solutions to Production.
High Proficiency in Microsoft Business Intelligence toolset, including:
SSAS (Tabular Model, DAX & MDX a must).
SSRS.
Power BI.
SSIS.
Write high quality code that is robust, performant, and easy to maintain.
Candidates should possess an attitude of lifetime learning to stay abreast of the latest technologies and practices.
Initiative, looking to proactively provide solutions, with the ability to think logically and independently.
Candidates should possess strong written and verbal communication skills and be able communicate with confidence in any situation.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business System Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business System Analyst to join their team in Vancouver, WA This position will focus on a combination of Business Analysis and Business Systems Analysis in support of the maturation of the Project Management Office.

The Business System Analyst will facilitate the analysis and definition of new portfolio management, project management and resource management processes, plus systems. This position will support optimizing the Transmission planning and execution of capital programs. This Business Systems Analyst will conduct stakeholder interviews, evaluate current-state processes, develop solutions and implement the “to be defined” best practices. This position will support both large transformational initiatives as well as desk-level improvement initiatives. The Business System Analyst must possess strong communication and facilitation skills, as well as a proven record for navigating amidst ambiguity. A valid U.S. driver’s license is required and up to 15% local travel for meeting/training is anticipated. Up to 5% overtime anticipated.

Responsibilities of the Business System Analyst
Supporting Requirements Development:
Conduct interviews and facilitate workshops to elicit business requirements.
Plan, organize and facilitate process improvement and business process documentation sessions in support of the maturation of the Project Management Office (PMO) and implementing Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) based project management methods.
Research, analyze, model and organize information for developing requirements.
Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to distinguish between solution ideas and business needs.
Facilitate requirements validation sessions and present findings.
Work with the manager/internal personnel to facilitate resolution of requirement conflicts between stakeholders.

Solution Development and Proposal:
Design, architect, build and recommend solutions based on requirements and best practices.
Facilitate/assist in technical process improvement initiatives
Research and develop methods to automate repetitive manual data manipulations.
Use Rapid System Development methods to build prototypes.
Develop solutions that integrate the various Portfolio, Project, GIS and Asset Management systems.
Complete all documentation in support of the solution, including use cases, requirements, test plans, process maps, and desk procedures.
Assist in the development of Business Cases/Justifications for the identified improvement opportunities and present the proposed solutions in both verbal and written formats to key stakeholders and sponsors.

Solution Build:
Prepare functional and technical documentation for hand-off to IT workgroups.
Work closely with corporate IT development teams to encourage a smooth build.
Draft documentation for user and operational manuals.
Design, build and implement desktop tools and systems to support portfolio and project management, project scheduling and project financial analysis.
Build business intelligence objects and reports from various source systems.
Create user interfaces in both Project Web Access (PWA) and SharePoint.
Draft and build electronic forms to support business processes.
Create queries and reports in MS Access for extracting, manipulating, and reporting of business architecture-related information.

Implementation and Change Management:
Support development and implementation of change management plans that reduce employee resistance and empower management as change sponsors.
Focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and skills, and organization structures.
Facilitate various system verification activities such as systems and user testing.
Develop and deliver process and systems training to impacted employees.
Facilitate system and data integration efforts to connect disparate systems that have various levels of System Life Cycle (SLC) maturity.

Solution Maintenance:
Provide first line technical support to business users of the developed solutions.
Complete and improve user manuals, onboarding and training documentation.
Analyze solutions and business practices for efficiency and effectiveness. Based on the analyses, initiate continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote the adherence to SLC processes.
Help the project meet business, schedule, and budget objectives.

Qualifications of the Business System Analyst
Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Systems or a directly-related technical discipline is preferred.
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Systems, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred. A Bachelor’s degree can substitute for 4 years of experience.
This is a Level 3 position: 12 years of project management and/or business analysis and/or systems analysis experience is required without a degree. 8 years of experience is required with a related degree.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

You want to understand the WHY… the purpose. You might be a fan of Simon Sinek.

You love the process of qualifying information and creating clear expectations.

Our legal services client will be hiring a mid-level Business Systems Analyst for a 2 year Contract in Beaverton.

Critical skills include: solution-focused mindset, thick skin, ability to hear what people are trying to say even when they can’t explain themselves.
This position will be responsible for the testing, analysis, documentation of all Print & Mail work running through Prepress.

This individual will play a key role in supporting developers with translation from internal and external client needs to technical solutions and operational requirements.

Pay rate: $35.00/hr. W2

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Create, deploy, maintain and support print Implementations and projects.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create innovative business solutions.
Provide print Creation and processing support for internal business clients.
Ensure that projects are consistently on-scope and on-time.
Draft effective documentation of procedures for training and reference purposes.
Implement standard processes for formatting and converting non-electronic information and data into print and customer output data.
Monitor task transitions and procedural flow within the group from creation to delivery.

***Curious about this job? Tell us why you love being an Analyst!***

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
2 years of experience gathering, testing, and documenting requirements.
You geek out when creating reports and manipulating data within Microsoft Excel and Access.
Experience writing SQL queries.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

You want to understand the WHY… the purpose. You might be a fan of Simon Sinek.

You love the process of qualifying information and creating clear expectations.

Our legal services client will be hiring a mid-level Business Systems Analyst for a 2 year Contract in Beaverton.

Critical skills include: solution-focused mindset, thick skin, ability to hear what people are trying to say even when they can’t explain themselves.
This position will be responsible for the testing, analysis, documentation of all Print & Mail work running through Prepress.

This individual will play a key role in supporting developers with translation from internal and external client needs to technical solutions and operational requirements.

Pay rate: $35.00/hr. W2

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Create, deploy, maintain and support print Implementations and projects.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create innovative business solutions.
Provide print Creation and processing support for internal business clients.
Ensure that projects are consistently on-scope and on-time.
Draft effective documentation of procedures for training and reference purposes.
Implement standard processes for formatting and converting non-electronic information and data into print and customer output data.
Monitor task transitions and procedural flow within the group from creation to delivery.

***Curious about this job? Tell us why you love being an Analyst!***

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
2 years of experience gathering, testing, and documenting requirements.
You geek out when creating reports and manipulating data within Microsoft Excel and Access.
Experience writing SQL queries.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business System Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business System Analyst to join their team in Vancouver, WA. This contract position will provide analyst support to the Technical Services organization within the Transmission Technology group. This position will provide research and analysis of historical data on the installed database of System Protection and Control and Power System Control equipment in addition to the additional design of processes and forms to track a variety of NERC requirements and compliance efforts. This can entail determining the extent of the missing data in the system, as well as developing and implementing new processes or procedures to track compliance. Because there are limited existing databases, the BA in this position will need to utilize creative approaches to compliance documentation and verification.
In addition, this position will provide recommendations for solutions to problems or gaps in data. The Business Systems Analyst position will provide data management and process controls for good data stewardship, and technical input and support in identifying process improvements and system alignment between Information Technology tools used for compliance reporting. The position will collaborate with Engineers in System Control Engineering the Security and Compliance team as well as Engineers and Craftsmen Transmission Field Service, to support management decision making and recommend requirements and improvements for program or project development. A valid U.S. Drivers license is required and up to 10% local travel is possible. Up to 5% overtime is anticipated.

Business System Analyst Responsibilities
This position will provide Project Management and Change control associated with several NERC CIP, PRC, and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) projects: Firmware tracking, Vulnerability assessments and password management; as well as providing detailed analysis of the Cascade and BES (Bulk Electric System) data to determine where equipment is located and how much of a risk as for non-compliance with NERC and internal requirements and standards. To successfully advance the aforementioned work, the BA in this position will perform the following:
General:
Coordinate activities for manager-assigned projects that enable goals or objectives to be accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters, escalating concerns to appropriate manager / personnel.
Compile, review and analyze information in order to collaborate with team members to, create/draft technical documentation to support system requirements, system design, system security, and operational manuals for a wide variety of software applications and may include the updates to SPC ADP computer system documentation.

Requirement Support:
Conduct interviews and lead workshops to elicit business requirements.
Analyze, facilitate, model and organize information in order to elicit requirements; work with appropriate parties to facilitate resolution of conflicting team positions; and, distinguish solution ideas from business needs.
Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to distinguish between solution ideas and business needs.
Lead requirements validation sessions and present back the findings.

Solution Development and Proposal:
Design architecture and solutions based on requirements and best practices.
Focus on efficiency of various workgroups involved in Project Execution.
Look for ways to automate repetitive manual data manipulations.
Use Rapid System Development methods to build prototypes.
Develop solutions that integrate the various Portfolio; Project; GIS and Asset Management systems.
Complete all documentation in support of the solution, including use cases, requirements, test plans, process maps, and desk procedures.
Assist in the development of Business Cases/Justifications for the identified improvement opportunities and present the proposed solutions in both verbal and written formats to key stakeholders and sponsors.

Solution Build:
Prepare functional and technical documentation for hand-off to IT workgroups.
Work closely with appropriate development teams to ensure a smooth build.
Create documentation for user and operational manuals.
Design, build and implement desktop tools and systems to support portfolio and project management; project scheduling and project financial analysis.
Build business intelligence objects and reports from various source systems.
Create user interfaces in both Project Web Access (PWA) and SharePoint.
Design and build electronic forms to support business processes.
Create queries and reports for extracting, manipulating, and reporting of business architecture-related information.

Implementation and Change Management:
Support development and implementation of change management plans that reduce employee resistance and empower management as change sponsors.
Focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and skills, and organization structures.
Facilitate various system verification activities such as systems and user testing.
Develop and deliver process and systems training to impacted employees.
Lead system and data integration efforts to connect disparate systems that have various levels of SLC maturity.
Collaborate and work closely with project sponsor(s), manager, the applicable Project Manager(s), project and business teams and stakeholders to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion and to facilitate successful implementation(s).

Solution Maintenance:
Provide first line technical support to business users of the developed solutions.
Complete and improve user manuals, onboarding and training documentation.
Analyze solutions and business practices for efficiency and effectiveness. Based on the analyses, initiate continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote the adherence to System Life Cycle (SLC) processes.
Help the project meet business, schedule, and budget objectives.
Investigate, gather data, evaluate and analyze whether has successfully implemented solutions and/or mitigated risks initially identified; provide findings and any additional solution recommendations as noted or requested.

Compliance Activities:
Interview Field personnel to determine what equipment is installed in the field, if the information is not present in the Cascade or BES systems; update system information as appropriate.
Support other North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) or other compliance teams to gain understanding on:
The need for a new process or revision to existing procedure(s).
New forms or revisions to existing forms that may be needed related to new processes.
As new or revised solutions are proposed and/or adopted for NERC CIP, PRC or FISMA related work:
Gather and document requirements.
Develop or maintain tools, such as spreadsheets, Access databases and SharePoint sites to support implementation of management-approved solutions, plans or efforts.
Assist with drafting new or revising existing processes and procedures as requested.
Monitor project schedules to track completed tasks and forecast additional work that may be required
Develop, draft and recommend records management procedures and schedules for filing, protection and retrieval of records associated with the SPC and PSC equipment in the field related to NERC. Maintain files and records in accordance with and up to the standards of Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) requirements.
Design, draft and recommend forms, reports and/or tools to track progress and verify completion of Field Service Site Inspection works.
Review, research and study existing processes and propose changes if necessary to achieve alignment between TEC and TT groups; present findings and recommendations.
For NERC - study existing procedures and processes; document findings and prepare recommendations for new systems or procedures to facilitate compliance with NERC requirements; assist personnel with implementation of management-approved recommendations.
Monitor and track versions and revisions of specialized Software, validating updates are processed in a timely manner.

Provide assistance on compliance and cyber security quality assurance related issues that may arise:
Identify data quality issues within our asset management systems of record as they apply to compliance and cyber security.
Write quality assurance reports to identify data quality issues within the Cascade system and I2CM Access Database.
Review incoming data from various sources; apply business rules to manipulate and analyze data, as well as produce reports.
Communicate with upstream data owners to request follow-up information as needed.

Business System Analyst Qualifications
A degree in Information Technology, Business Systems, or related field is preferred:
With an applicable bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.
With an applicable Associates degree, 10 years of experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 12 years of experience is required.
Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of business systems analysis and progressively more technical in nature.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Buyer
Our client is seeking a Buyer to join their team in Portland, OR. As a member of the department of Procurement Trucks and Buses team you will gain valuable experience and knowledge cross functionally. This position is responsible for the strategic procurement of chassis and mechatronics components.

Buyer Responsibilities
Maintain supplier pricing files, purchasing contracts, and internal communication systems to ensure pricing is correctly documented.
Manage daily administrative requirements for successful team metrics, including contract requisitions, competitive part quotations, price discrepancies and related tasks
Support negotiations and renew supplier contracts to purchase critical materials, parts, components and tooling.
Issue request for quotations to suppliers and prepare quote comparisons as necessary to validate appropriateness.
Support multi-functional product teams to develop and evaluate long-term proposals
Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Complies with all company policies and standards.

Buyer Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree OR an associate's degree (Supply Chain degree preferred) with 1 year of related experience OR 4 years of related experience required.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and excellent analytical and communication skills required.
Experience with Globus, Paragon, and P-View preferred (SAP based programs).
Familiar with business and economic issues, cost structures and contracts preferred.
Relevant materials and their features and production techniques preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Category Merchandising Operations Specialist to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on consumer insights, assortment planning, Go to Market, and product management activities.

Category Merchandising Operations Specialist Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 0-1 years directly relevant work experience.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Change Manager
Our client is seeking a Change Manager to join their team in Portland, OR. The Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) project is a business imperative to successfully operate the distribution system into the future optimizing reliability, safety, and efficiency. The ADMS, combined with other field automation initiatives, will support improved reliability through rapid fault location identification and provide the potential for automatic isolation and restoration of certain customer outages, directly improving the customer experience. The ADMS provides the “brain” to support coordination across disparate programs impacting the distribution system, enabling these programs to be optimized to provide distribution, customer, and bulk power benefits. Additionally, the ADMS will support remote status monitoring/testing, reducing the duration of field visits by enabling dispatch of the appropriate personnel to field equipment requiring attention. The ADMS will provide operators with a comprehensive platform for management and optimization of the distribution system providing business process efficiencies.

Responsibilities
In this role, you will lead the development and execution of a change management strategy to support the implementation and adoption of an Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS). The ADMS will enhance the ability to monitor, control, and optimize the distribution system. The ADMS will increase situational awareness of the distribution system increasing reliability and improving worker safety as the complexity of the distribution grid increases. Successful implementation of the ADMS is critical as it enables operationalizing several other Smart Grid initiatives that are currently underway.

As a Change Manager Consultant, you will develop, lead, and execute change management strategies and tactics that drive the adoption of new processes, tools, systems, and behaviors within Transmission & Distribution. Success for this project depends on behavioral changes in a wide diversity of employees. We need your expertise, passion, and ingenuity.
To deliver these results, you’ll lead change efforts collaborating closely with the business leaders within Transmission & Distribution and the Utility change team to assess, plan, prioritize, execute, and evaluate the change strategy and tactics.

Qualifications
Candidate resumes are required to reflect evidence of delivery for all the following change management deliverables:

Chief Financial Officer
Our downtown Portland client is looking for a collaborative and outgoing CFO to manage their accounting and finance team. This role will be seated in a corner office overlooking the beautiful Willamette River, and comes with nice benefits!

Responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer
Oversee company financial and operational performance.
Provide recommendations for strategic planning and forecasting.
Lead the continuous development and implementation of financial policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Manage banking and other external financial relationships.
Oversee audit processes.
Develop, train, and mentor executive accounting and finance staff.
Planning and analysis of business opportunities.
Financial modeling and strategic planning.
Annual financial reporting.
Tax return review and approval.
Oversee budgeting process.
Ad hoc financial reporting and analysis.
Other special projects and duties as needed.

Chief Financial Officer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business; real estate or affordable housing background required.
CPA required.
10 years of progressively responsible accounting experience, with experience in a previous CPA, CFO, or Treasurer capacity.
Tax experience required.
Demonstrate experience in a business partner role.
Knowledge of GAAP.
Cash and asset management experience.
Strong team building skills.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
Advanced ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Professional demeanor.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

City Engineer
Our client is seeking a motivated professional City Engineer with technical talent and the administrative ability to plan, direct and administer all activities related to Engineering. This role coordinates with Public Works and other departments to ensure that high quality utility services are delivered.

The selected candidate evaluates and defines division programs, policies and budget proposals and oversees engineering staff and related contractors and is responsible for high-level oversight of engineering projects. The City Engineer participates in the plan check, review and processing of plans for private developments affecting streets, sewers, drains and related public works facilities to ensure they meet all requirements.
This position provides input into policies and procedures and advises the Assistant City Manager and the City Manager on related issues. The City Engineer also exercises budget responsibility for the Engineering Division. This position works under the general supervision of the Assistant City Manager.

Responsibilities
Provides leadership through planning, organizing, directing and supervising all activities of the department to achieve goals within available resources related to Engineering.
Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the operations of the department.
Coordinates department activities with other departments and agencies as needed.
Executes the Capital Improvement Program including procurement and management of significant related contracts.
Develops work plans, resources the design and delivery of capital projects and manages staff assignments.
Trains, motivates and evaluates assigned staff; reviews progress.
Has authority to hire, evaluate performance and take corrective action as needed.
Prepares and administers the department budget based on staffing and resource requirements, program objectives and goals.
Monitors the budget to assure compliance with approved budget levels and standards.
Represents the City in discussions with other jurisdictions, developers and the public.
Oversees design and specifications for c. major public works projects.
Assigns project managers and monitors all engineering capital projects to ensure budgetary compliance, administrative procedure compliance and timely completion.
Coordinates capital construction with Public Works staff.
Oversees development of intergovernmental agreements and approves professional service contracts for supplementing staff work programs.
Works with Public Works to develop the Capital Improvement Program- to accommodate additional capacity and to replace and maintain long-term public utility investments.
Develops master plans for the utilities and assists in implementing those plans through the Capital Improvement Program consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
Oversees the utility rate-setting process and ensures that the reviews its rate structure for the water, sewer, and storm utilities on a regular and periodic basis.
Reviews and proposes new financing structures, as needed, to implement the Capital Improvement Program.
Represents or oversees others representing in regional forums to ensure that the receives a fair hearing on proposed projects and effectively communicates progress on existing projects. Attends workshops, conferences, and civic affairs to discuss projects and solicit support.
Reviews and updates specifications, policies and guidelines as they relate to private development projects and other projects.
Ensures compliance with Federal and State regulations.
Serves as a member of various citizen and staff committees as assigned.
Attends and participates in community and neighborhood meetings.
Provides professional advice to supervisors and other officials; makes presentations to supervisors, the Council, boards, commissions, civic groups and the general public.
Prepares and writes grant application components relating to engineering and public works capital construction projects.
Maintains positive public relations with customers and is responsive to customer needs.
Develops safe work habits and contributes to the safety of self, co-workers and the public.
Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a degree in Civil Engineering or closely related field.
Eight (8) years of progressively responsible engineering experience with a focus on transportation engineering to include at least three (3) years of management/supervisory experience.
Required to be a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Oregon.
Project Management Certification is not required, but preferred.

Knowledge of:
Management and supervisory practices and principles.
Fiscal management, including budget preparation, expenditure control and record keeping.
Transportation project design and delivery.
Effectively supervise and motivate staff.
Understand civil engineering principles, practices and methods as applicable to a municipal setting.
Develop goals and long-range planning for department.
Analyze and evaluate departmental operations and develop and implement plans to improve departmental efficiency.
Prepare and analyze comprehensive and technical reports.
Manage multiple projects often within tight timeframes.
Make effective presentations.
Exercise sound judgment in evaluating situations quickly and objectively and to determine proper course of action.
Develop cost estimates on complex projects.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Work as a team member and to cultivate a team climate.
Perform the essential functions of the job.
Must be able to pass the department's security clearance standards including review of driving record.
Must possess, or be able to obtain by time of hire, a valid Oregon Driver's License
Computer and printer, fax machine and copy machines; Computer software including MS based word-processing, spreadsheet, data base and computer aided design software, standard drafting tools, surveying instruments and mobile radio.

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.)
Work is performed mostly in office setting.
Moderate levels of physical effort, temperature extremes, dirty or otherwise disagreeable conditions are present while occasionally performing site inspections.
Evening meetings are required.
Responds any hours to emergency situations.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Clojure Development Engineer
Our client is seeking a Clojure Development Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR.
Team members write code and automated tests (TDD, BDD), review pull requests, diagnose errors through multiple environments, and seek incremental improvement each workday. Teams assess requirements and plan solutions together. Teams also participate in regular reflection exercises and experiment with technology and process improvements together.

Qualifications
Have a strong understanding of Functional programming
Have 2 or more years of experience with Clojure programming language.
Collaborate openly while solving technical problems.
Establish clarity from uncertainty and can break down complex, open-ended problems.
Communicate clearly with technical colleagues, product managers, and other stakeholders.
Write code supported by automated tests, and incrementally improve code bases.
Demonstrate a pattern of growth in capability and responsibility over time.

Experience with cloud technology is a plus.
You can expect to:
Utilize a variety of cloud-native and modern technologies to securely move, manipulate, and store data (ECS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Parameter Store...).
Design services to run in container-based and serverless deployment environments.
Continuously deploy to AWS, thanks to our continuous deployment pipeline.
Use functional programming style and languages to solve challenging problems.
Apply modern agile principles to continuously deliver value.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Cloud Architect
Our client, a leading consulting and professional services company, is looking for a Cloud Architect to join their team in Portland, OR. In this role, you will provide customers with high-level assessments and guidance, strategic detailed plans, and technical implementations of demos, POCs, and solutions. You should be comfortable not only meeting with C-level decision-makers in large companies and discussing business problems, drivers, and best practices, but also translating those into technical projects and implementing the resulting solutions on-site with "hands on keyboard" (and the customer potentially present in a learning/teaching capacity).

Because of the broad range of technologies and capabilities that may be involved, you should be also able to recognize when to delegate to in-house specialists in specific areas and trusted partners. Our primary goal is to deliver solutions that optimize a customer's requirements and build ongoing and lasting relationships with our clients. The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and willingness to continuously learn existing and emerging technologies is also key.

Cloud Architect Responsibilities
Take direction and mentorship from Lead Solutions Architect.
Engage with customer resources to define the details of and implement solutions.
Assist in the design, architecture, and implementation of public and hybrid cloud solutions for our customers and their business and technical needs.
Build cloud templates, software architectures, configuration management systems, and other deliverables within customer environments.
Troubleshoot technical issues and drive escalations with multiple involved providers via their support channels, while keeping customer updated at all times.

***Not a perfect match, but pretty close and you’ve got the core skills? Tell us why you feel you're a good fit!***

Cloud Architect Qualifications
AWS or Azure experience in a technical production capacity (e.g. you should be able to create an S3 bucket or provision Blob Storage and demonstrate/explain related best-practices)
Experience working with customers collaboratively on a variety of projects across multiple disciplines.
Hands-on experience architecting, building, and running cloud-based applications (especially re-architecting for the cloud).
Strong working knowledge and use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas), Platform-as-a-Service (Paas), and Software-as-a-Service (Saas) offerings.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Commission Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business required.
1-2 years of accounting or finance analysis experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Communications Specialist
Our client is looking for a Communications Specialist to join their team. This position reports to the Communications Manager and supports the President and CEO.

Communications Specialist Responsibilities
Ability to take direction and execute on complex tasks.
Represents the organization as a prime contact for executive-level communications.
Develops, writes and edits a variety of communications for the CEO.
Develops communication plans, strategies and tactics in partnership with CEO staff analysts and enterprise stakeholders that align with corporate strategy.
Drafts speeches and performs research/data gathering, working with subject matter experts both inside and outside of the company. Leads revision and version control for all written and oral communications.
Measures communication effectiveness with employees and adjusts messaging as needed.
Develops solutions to a variety of complex situations ranging from communicating business strategy to transition planning.
Ability to establish partnerships and relationships with executives, internal and external customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
Ability to promote collaboration between individuals and teams to meet company objectives.
Knowledge of effective interviewing techniques to extract both general and specific information, perspectives and viewpoints from interviewees.
Exerts some influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of the organization.
Proficient in PowerPoint, knowledge of presentation techniques (e.g., posture, speaker's relationship to audience, use of intonation and props, use of visual aids and pacing).
Identifies communication objectives, target audience and key messages.
Proficient in editing processes, practices, techniques, editing marks, reference materials and tools.

Communications Specialist Qualifications
6-9 years experience with Bachelor's degree or 4-7 years with Master's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing and/or Business.
Previous experience supporting executive level communications.
This position may include occasional travel.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Content Specialist to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As the Learning Content Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in bringing innovative learning concepts to life for our rapidly growing, global, 24/7 workforce.

Content Specialist Responsibilities:
You will manage projects from concept to delivery by working cross functionally with stakeholders to create and update technical learning content.
You will work closely with our Production teams on the manufacturing floor, along with our Engineering, Maintenance, and Safety teams to document processes, best practices, and requirements and innovatively translate information to learners.
You will be expected to bring fresh, new ideas around educating our diverse workforce to make on-demand knowledge transfer more effective.
You will help our team to focus on and drive continuous improvement of innovative learning concepts.
You will be expected to stay focused on ever-changing team and business priorities, and on delivering results that meet established metrics for success of the projects to which you are assigned.
You will be expected to align with your teammates so that a consistent approach is taken in executing against business priorities.

Content Specialist Qualifications:
High School Diploma or equivalent, plus 3 years of directly related manufacturing experience.
Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, PowerApps, etc), eLearning authoring tools, 2D/3D/360o video editing software, Adobe Creative Suite applications.
Knowledge and experience with taking and editing high-quality video content, and ability to create learner-focused content.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to communicate across multiple levels of the organization.
Ability to focus on multiple, competing priorities and projects.
Demonstrated Project Management experience.
Innovative, out-of-the-box thinker.
Experience working with diverse global teams/audiences preferred.
Ability to occasionally work across shift changes to coordinate with stakeholders.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Contract Administrator
Our client is seeking a Contract Administrator to join their team in Portland, OR. This role will be responsible for placing of purchase orders for services and non-inventory materials required to support their US Commercial Operations at over 50 wind plants with a capacity of 6+ GW and growing. In this role the Contract Administrator will utilize the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and other tools to initiate purchase orders and follow them through their life cycle.

Responsibilities
Work with internal customers to prepare of bid packages and conduct requests for proposals (RFP) for unique work valued between $10,000 to $50,000.
Develop and refine of scopes of work and bid pricing breakdown. These scopes of work can include tools, turbine repairs, weed control, and other services.
Identify qualified bidders.
Administer RFPs through the AP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) system.
Creation and administration of purchase orders for assigned commodities following Company Policies, internal procedures, and Corporate Purchasing requirements.
Categories of equipment/services include: tools, PPE, uniforms, freight/parcel/express mail, and equipment maintenance.
Administration and monitoring of centralized contracts for recurring scopes of work.
These scopes of work include tool/equipment testing/calibration, oil analysis, uniforms, waste management, freight/parcel, and other services.
Validation of billing per contract.
Resolving invoice issues with suppliers.
Allocation of billing to appropriate wind plants.
Updating of purchase orders as needed.
Monitoring of supplier performance, resolving any issues.
Monitoring and tracking of open purchase orders with suppliers and coordination with internal customers.
Collaborate with internal customers and suppliers to improve supplier performance.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Contract/Acquisition Specialist/Administrator
Our client is seeking a Contract/Acquisition Specialist/Administrator to join their team in Portland, OR. This position will provide support to the Services Acquisition Team and Grants & Agreement Team within the Contracts & Strategic Sourcing organization. This position will provide day-to-day support to Contracting Officers with documentation, draft and preparation for solicitations, contracts and master contract releases, assist with market research and interface with internal clients on statement of work and project timeline questions and clarifications, as well as external vendors on questions related to company established procurement process. This position will gather / collect / receive, organize, monitor and track multiple procurement actions, documents and contracts and releases on behalf, in support and under the guidance of one of various groups. A valid U.S. driver’s license is required.

Contract/Acquisition Specialist/Administrator Responsibilities
Gather, review, draft and/or edit contract documents, including the Document of Award Decision (DAD).
Research legal, contract information, company information, etc.
Draft communication / letters (e.g. correspondence to vendors, internal email etc.).
Provide assistance on drafting solicitation documentation for review and approval by CO.
Assist in developing blanket purchase agreement/task order documents to include: Data Entry and validation of contract information, creating PDF files of agreement/task orders by combining signature page with additional information pages, schedule of prices, terms and conditions, statement of work. Proof documents and validate accuracy of documents.
Assist in Contract close out documentation by coordinating between the vendor, end user, and the COR, validating all services are complete and all invoices have been received/paid. Submit to the CO a close-out checklist.

Perform price analysis and make recommendations based upon that analysis.
Provide assistance in developing statements of work (SOWs).
Conduct market research as requested or directed.
As requested, assist COs, Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs), managers and clients across in procurement planning activities such as suggesting purchase methods, identifying potential contract types, and assisting in risk identification.
Assist the Contracting Officer (CO) with contractor and client meetings which includes:
Making meeting room and time arrangements;
Sending out meeting invites;
Rescheduling as necessary;
Compiling any necessary background materials;
Taking, transcribing and distributing meeting notes, etc.
Issue solicitation packages as directed by CO.

Process award decisions per established procedure and as directed by CO
Review (not inspect) Contractor performance and provide information / recommendation to CO
Use skill set to provide cross training to the team as requested by manager. Training is OTJ via one-on one sessions or participation in group brown-bag sessions. Training, both giving and receiving will be limited to the individual execution of specific processes, documentation requirements and use of systems.
Develop / draft and recommend methods, approaches and best practices to achieve procedural and process consistency for the group, specifically for training purposes. This activity may include observing different work streams that could be made more efficient, encouraging the use of templates, and standardization of documentation. Assist with the implementation of management approved recommendations, including input into change management approach and plans. This includes execution and use of new process/templates as well as communicating new requirements or processes to internal business partners.

Respond to customer requests by gathering and providing information on established contract and solicitation processes.
General Activities
Take, transcribe, draft and distribute and file (as appropriate) meeting notes for team(s), the group and contracting officers (COs), assisting in documenting discussions and decisions.
Attend meetings as needed, create real time documents and meeting notes based on direction from the team, including any follow-up action items for team members and vendors; distribute approved meeting notes as requested. May require tracking action items for completion; alerting the manager or CO of any delays, issues or concerns.
Participate in the improvement process by drafting and recommending new or revised procedures, processes and practices for management consideration; assist with implementation of the management approved improvement initiatives. This includes execution and use of new process/templates as well as communicating new requirements or processes to nternal business partners.
As requested, serve as back-up for COAs across the organization, performing tasks of similar size and scope as those listed above.

Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree with a major in any field is preferred; a Bachelor’s degree in Supply and Logistics Management is highly preferred;
With a Bachelor’s Degree: 2-4 years directly-related Service procurement and/or Financial Assistance experience is required.
Without a Bachelor’s Degree:
3 – 5 years of directly-related Service procurement and/or Financial Assistance experience is required.
24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management is required. (Resume content must validate minimum 24 semester hours in the fields listed to qualify for this position – see following “Note”).
Note: resume must include a list of the specific classes being claimed as "qualifying", including a list of specific semester hours for each class and the name of the education institution where the classes were taken (for example: Courses taken at Washington State University: Accounting 101 - 3 semester hours; Accounting 102 - 3 semester hours, etc.). Please provide a crosswalk or reference in the education/experience portion of the qualifications matrix that points back to the coursework info provided in the resume.

Experience should include a minimum combination of directly-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training is desired. Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of Service procurement with an emphasis in procurement and/or other public sector procurement preferred. Proposal preparation or buying experience performed in a private company is also acceptable.

Preferred Skills & Experience
Procurement with an emphasis in federal procurement (the Federal Acquisition Regulations or FAR) and/or other public sector procurement.
Energy/utility industry experience.
Demonstrated editing and proofreading skills with attention to detail and accuracy.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Contract/Acquisition Specialist/Administrator
Our client is seeking a Contract/Acquisition Specialist/Administrator to join their team in Vancouver, WA.
This position will provide day-to-day support to Contracting Officers (COs) with, draft and preparation of solicitations, contracts and master contract releases and associated documentation; market research; interfaces with internal clients on statement of work and project timelines, and communications with external vendors on questions related to contracts and established procurement process.

Responsibilities
Gather, review, draft and/or edit contract documents, including the process of award decisions per established procedure and as directed by CO.
Gather, review and organize vendor, contracting and project team data to provide information to contract team.
Coordinate project/program delivery schedules and questions with the Team and Project Managers.
Identify and communicate to contracting officers, and/or project team members, internal and external roadblocks which may impact schedules and escalate to team manager.
Escalate vendor and team issues to respective COs. May act as communications facilitator for project team and vendor(s).
Research legal, contract information, company information, etc.
Draft communication / letters (e.g. correspondence to vendors, internal email etc.).
Provide assistance on drafting solicitation documentation for review and approval by CO.
Issue solicitation packages as directed by CO.
Assist in developing master agreements/releases documents.
Assist in Contract close out documentation.
Perform cost/price analysis and make recommendations based upon that analysis.
Provide assistance in developing/reviewing statements of work (SOWs).
Conduct market research; gather, review and organize market information as requested or directed.
As requested or directed, assist COs, Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs), managers and clients across the company in procurement planning activities such as suggesting procurement methods, identifying potential contract types, and assisting in risk identification.
Assist the Contracting Officer (CO) in arranging and conducting of meetings with contractors and clients.
Review (not inspect) Contractor performance and provide information/advise to CO.
Maximize cross training potential (utilizing skill-set to train others).
Develop / draft and recommend methods, approaches and best practices to achieve procedural and process consistency for the group. This activity may include observing different work streams that could be made more efficient, encouraging the use of templates, and standardization of documentation. Assist with the implementation of the management approved recommendations, including input into change management approach and plans.
Gather and facilitate customer information and provide procurement standardized guidance/procedures to customer(s) on established contract and solicitation processes.
Enter data and extract and format data from Enterprise Resource Planning systems for use in presentations to supply chain and/or customer teams
Work with Accounts Payable and Contracting Officer Representatives to resolve invoicing issues.
As requested, serve as back-up for COAs across the organization, performing tasks of similar size and scope as those listed above

Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience
Bachelor’s degree with a major in any field, however, Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply and Logistics Management is highly preferred;
In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, candidate must have completed at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management (resume content must validate minimum 24 semester hours in the fields listed to qualify for this position – see following “Note”).
Note: resume must include a list of the specific classes being claimed as "qualifying", including a list of specific semester hours for each class and the name of the education institution where the classes were taken (for example: Courses taken at Washington State University: Accounting 101 - 3 semester hours; Accounting 102 - 3 semester hours, etc.). Courses taken from schools on a quarter hour schedule must be converted to semester hours. Please provide a crosswalk or reference in the education/experience portion of the qualifications matrix that points back to the coursework info provided in the resume.
Bachelor’s degree can substitute for some related experience.

Preferred Skills & Experience
Experience with SharePoint.
Basic understanding of construction procurement with an emphasis in federal procurement (the Federal Acquisition Regulations or FAR) and/or other public sector procurement. Proposal preparation or buying experience performed in a private company is also acceptable.
Energy/utility industry experience.
Demonstrated editing and proofreading skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Controller
We are working with an industry-leading, large privately held organization who is in need of a Controller to join their Salem office. This company has an amazing reputation and very low employee turnover. This role will be supporting financial reporting and analysis for their Pacific Northwest region.

Responsibilities of the Controller
Oversee financial statements.
Develop, cross-train, and mentor accounting and administrative team.
Manage general and sub-ledger accounts.
Oversee budgeting and forecasting.
Ad hoc analysis for management.
Site visits for quality control and analysis.
Prepare reporting and analysis for management.
Mergers and Acquisitions analysis periodically.
Maintain customer relationships.
Oversee compliance.
Support the continuous development and implementation of finance and accounting policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Controller Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
3 years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience, with 2 years in a managerial role.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel; knowledge of VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, macros, and formulas required.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent work ethic.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Controller
Our public works client in Beaverton is looking for a Controller to manage their accounting team. This role is a great opportunity to step into leadership with a company that offers great benefits.

Controller Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business or Accounting; CPA required.
7 years of progressively responsible accounting experience, with experience in a supervisory role.
Advanced knowledge of financial analysis.
Investment management experience.
Knowledge of GAAP, as well as purchasing and budget law.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Corporate Technology Architect
Our client is seeking a Corporate Technology Architect to join their team in Portland, OR. The Corporate Technology Architect is responsible for developing and maintaining architecture for enterprise business systems and partner-facing services offerings managed by the Corporate Technology team. This role will work with executives, business unit leaders and key stakeholders to understand long-term business plans and translates high level requirements to technology roadmaps. The Corporate Technology Architect develop designs with a focus on development best practices, enterprise integration, scalability and minimization of technical debt.
The selected Candidate will play a key role in evangelizing new and emerging technology, enfolding those capabilities into roadmaps and high-level design. The Corporate Technology Architect works collaboratively with all participants across software and infrastructure development projects, providing guidance, mentorship and subject matter expertise. This role has a heavy emphasis on facilitating cross team and cross role collaboration in a systems development and maintenance environment.

Responsibilities of the Corporate Technology Architect
Provide architectural leadership and guide the structure for creating new and maintaining the organization’s existing system assets.
Architectural leadership for the design and implementation of major corporate systems.
Consult with executives, business unit leaders and stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and corporate system design.
Develop technology roadmaps, standards and strategies; oversee their implementation.
Create and define a consistent architecture for corporate systems, integrations and access methods.
Provide continuity in major solution design decisions.
Advise on the use of emerging technology for maximizing business benefits; research, prototype, and document the organization’s best practices using industry standards for new technology usage.
Evangelize and teach best practices, system design principles and adoption of new technology or techniques.

Recommend operational action necessary to manage technology debt.
Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Create systems architecture artifacts such as UML design models, conceptual and state diagrams, application program-to-program communication design, solution design principles, Data Flow Diagrams, whitepapers and Presentations.
Ensure system architecture meets internal and external policies and requirements for technical standards, security, scalability, operation, and support.
Assist in making build vs. buy decisions; coordinate with other business units in the organization to stay informed of packaged software implementations.
Document and understand systematized business rules in corporate business systems such as CRM, Finance, HR and Legal systems and ensure that integrations abide by company standards for secure data handling and security.
Support project teams.
Provide support to infrastructure, development, and operation teams for solving challenging technical problems through application of prototypes, core library development, and knowledge of industry best practices. Provide mentoring on solution design, implementation, construction and development
methodologies through one-on-one interaction, meetings, and brown bag sessions.
Participate in design and code reviews; assign priority of remediation.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.

Qualifications of the Corporate Technology Architect
15+ years related work experience.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience in lieu of degree.
Deep experience in solving scalability, reliability and robustness challenges.
Experience implementing SOA (micro services, event based systems) and loosely coupled architecture.
Strong experience with integration technology stacks and relevant standards including SAML, OAuth, REST and application frameworks such as Spring/Hibernate or .NET.
Strong experience with high availability data technologies (multi-data center, stateless architecture, load balanced, queuing and caching systems).
Strong leadership with a desire to collaborate and provide mentorship.
Knowledge of integration and interoperability with Microsoft technologies.
Experience with developing solutions using utilizing on-premise and cloud technology.
Able to articulate and advocate strategy and direction for technology and architecture throughout the organization.
Ability to communicate well with upper management, business stakeholders, development teams, product managers, project managers, and partners.
Ability to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment while developing and maintaining long term supportive relationships.
Experience architecting and developing highly scalable, secure enterprise software.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a wide range of individuals and skill levels.
Ability to mentor and coach others in a way that helps them reach their potential.
Track record of evaluating technology and applying to solve business problems.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Cost Accountant
Our Willamette Valley client has an outstanding reputation and culture. They are growing at a rapid pace and would like to add a Cost Accountant to their team. This role is a great opportunity to gain professional growth at a company that promotes from within and works collaboratively across teams.

Cost Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting; CPA or CMA preferred.
2-4 years of accounting in a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of GAAP and cost accounting.
Physical inventory experience.
Knowledge of cost rates.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel and Word; knowledge of VLOOKUPs and pivot tables.
ERP systems knowledge; Dynamics AX preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Cost Accountant
Our Portland manufacturing client has an opening for a Cost Accountant to support all cost accountant functions for their accounting team. This role comes with great benefits and opportunity for advancement.

Cost Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; equivalent educations and experience.
3-5 years of cost accounting and financial analysis experience; manufacturing background preferred.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Oracle preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Costing Trainer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The Costing program is a transformational initiative that brings standardization to product cost calculations for the footwear business. They are looking for a trainer to deliver in depth training to our various impacted users. Impacted users range from factory partners in Asia, and teams at World Headquarters in Beaverton, OR.

Costing Trainer Responsibilities:
The trainer will directly report to the Transition Management Director and will be responsible for the following:
Learn and be able to articulate the Costing methodology.
Learn the various impacted user group, their function, how they are impacted by the Costing program.
Develop targeted training messaging that is relevant and accurately represents each function’s processes.
Create training materials (manuals, 1-pagers, diagrams, presentations, cheat sheets, reference guides, etc.).
Deliver in-person and web-based training.
Update content and training materials as program updates are made.
Develop a training content repository and document internal update processes.
Compile and share training summaries to the project team members to share key learnings, areas for improvement, and questions that came up during training.
Support and deliver on all relevant training requests.
Travel to Asia required.

Costing Trainer Qualifications:
Demonstrate competence in working with Microsoft Office tools, specifically Outlook email and calendaring, Excel, PowerPoint.
Have strong presentation creation and delivery skills.
Strong communicator both in the classroom environment and with the project team.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and in ambiguity.

Preferred Skills:
Experience working in AirTable
Experience working in Litmus LMS
Excellent slide design skillsBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Data Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Data Analyst within the Asia Pacific Latin America Merchandising Business Operations team, you will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise data & analytics capabilities.

Their team vision is to be a place where diverse talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. They promote inclusion, flexibility, diversity, multiculturalism, and this is reflected in their hiring process. They believe diversity is what makes us stronger.

Data Analyst Responsibilities:
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to manage data logistics - including data transfers, understanding data structures, etc.
Support the development of reports by providing requisite content.
Comfortable with SQL and Tableau - at least 1-year experience.
Participate in presentation of reports to key internal stakeholders, effectively communicating the steps taken to create the output.
Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel including creating spreadsheets, complex formulas, pivot tables, etc.
Concurrently monitor many projects and their progress relative to timeline and scope.
Create and leverage tableau to visualize data.

Data Analyst Qualifications:
1-2 years' professional experience with data mining, segmentation, and/or predictive modeling using large databases.
Effective Communicator.
Broad Business Process and Systems Understanding.
Analytical and Focused.
Strategic Thinking and Tactical Execution.
Continuous Learner.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Data Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Data Engineer Responsibilities:
Design and implement features in collaboration with team engineers, product owners, data analysts, and business partners using Agile / Scrum methodology.
Contribute to overall architecture, frameworks and patterns for processing and storing large data volumes.
Design and implement distributed data processing pipelines using Spark, Hive, Sqoop, Python, and other tools and languages prevalent in the Hadoop ecosystem.
Build utilities, user defined functions, and frameworks to better enable data flow patterns.
Research, evaluate and utilize new technologies/tools/frameworks centered around high-volume data processing.
Define and apply appropriate data acquisition and consumption strategies for given technical scenarios.
Build and incorporate automated unit tests and participate in integration testing efforts.
Work with architecture/engineering leads and other teams to ensure quality solutions are implemented, and engineering best practices are defined and adhered to.
Work across teams to resolve operational and performance issues.

Data Engineer Qualifications:
MS/BS in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
5+ years of industry experience, 3+ years of relevant big data/relational db experience.
5 + years in Unix systems engineering with experience in Red Hat Linux, Centos or Ubuntu.
Troubleshooting production issues and performing On-Call duties, at times.
Ability to architect, design and implement solutions with AWS Virtual Private Cloud, EC2, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling, AWS Simple Storage Service, EMR and other AWS products.
2+ year experience in Python, Snowflake and Airflow. Strong programming experience in Python.
Extensive experience working with Hadoop and related processing frameworks such as Spark, Hive, Sqoop, etc.
Desire to work collaboratively with your teammates to come up with the best solution to a problem.
Demonstrated experience and ability to deliver results on multiple projects in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong desire to learn and share knowledge with others.
Passionate about data and striving for excellence.
Experience with RDBMS systems, SQL and SQL Analytical functions
Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
Experience with performance and scalability tuning.
Experience in Agile/Scrum application development using JIRA.
Experience working in a public cloud environment, particularly AWS.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with practices like Continuous Development, Continuous Integration and Automated Testing.
Experience with Scala or Java.
Familiarity with build tools such as CloudFormation and automation tools such as Jenkins or Circle CI.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Data Reporting Analyst to join their dynamic team in Portland, OR. In this position you will serve as a data reporting analyst for functional business areas by collecting data, creating reports and analyzing outcomes. Data used within the report includes claims data, medical management, and clinical data.

Data Reporting Analyst:
Create analytical reports for employer groups based on employer group's claims experience.
Create medical management reports for employer groups.
Develops methodologies and approaches to new reports and projects through design and development of analytical models.
Proactively identify issues and concerns to management.
Develops knowledge of health plan operations, health plan data sources and structures, and cost containment strategies.
Identifies problems or needed changes, recommends resolution, and participates in quality improvement efforts.
Identifies needed reporting, assembles or directs the assembly of reports and distributes such information.
Performs acceptance testing of new reports, programs and models.
Documents business and technical requirements and methods used to generate work output.
Drives analytic innovation and best practices.
Actively identifies and eliminates inefficient or ineffective use of resources and provides recommendation on process improvements.

Data Reporting Analyst Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, actuarial science, statistics, computer science or related field and 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proven ability to design and develop healthcare reporting tools and dashboards.
Keen analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to document reporting requirements (business and technical requirements).
Solid oral and written communication skills.
Advanced knowledge of health plan operations, data sources, data structures within business area.
Knowledge of data mining tools and methods (SAS, SQL) including server reporting services (e.g. SPSS, Tableau).
Business sense (finance, accounting, economics, risk management, public health economics, social service research or epidemiology).
Ability to organize, plan and prioritize assignments within multiple projects.
Must be able to work with minimal direction and be very flexible to coordinate complex activities that are often subject to rapid or extensive changes.
Demonstrated success with project management.
Advanced oral and written communications skills.
Proven ability to perform difficult analytical tasks with minimal supervision.

Conducts business with high regard for corporate values and in compliance with its Code of Business Conduct.
Maintains high regard for member and Medicare beneficiary privacy and complies with Corporate Privacy and information security policies.
Contributes to the achievement of our Corporate Affirmative Action goals and objectives.
Responsible for quality and continuous improvement within the job scope. Contributes to and supports the company's quality initiatives.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Data Science Platform Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Data Science Platform Engineer Responsibilities:
Work to develop and/or implement platforms to enable our Data Science Community the develop, create and deploy machine learning capabilities.
End to end hands-on ownership of machine learning platforms deployable across various Cloud providers – including data pipelines, model generation, training and inference engines.
Evaluate new AI Frameworks for possible long term platform approaches.
Conduct Proof of Concept (POC) projects designed to evaluate the feasibility of new data science open source projects, vendor supplied machine learning and/or AI platforms.
Work with Data Science Community to anticipate platform needs required to support algorithm development, model management, data engineering and model serving.
Facilitate deep technical discussions with end-users and partners.
Provide customer feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction.
Provide domain expertise public cloud and enterprise technology.
Advance open source development practices with the engineering team through participation in architecture, technical design and code reviews.

Data Science Platform Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 8+ years of experience, MS Computer Science degree preferred.
5+ years of designing and developing backend systems in a professional work environment.
5+ years working with OO and functional programming languages, such as Scala, Java and/or Python.
4+ years of data management experience (structure & databases, process data streams, ETLs).
3+ years of experience working with SQL, NoSQL, graph and unstructured databases.
2+ years of expertise in security, scaling, and load balancing.
1+ years delivering solutions that run in Cloud Service Providers.
Software Development / Configuration of Open Source Product experience.
Experience in a Kubernetes environment, and Cloud provider experience

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS technologies, Linux development platform.
Experience using one or more open source machine learning frameworks such as of TensorFlow, KubeFlow, PyTorch is a plus.
Experience leading the design, implementation, and operation of distributed software systems.
Experience communicating with users and stakeholders to collect requirements, present and review technical designs.
Development experience with Go programming and/or C/C++/Java, Python.
Development experience with Javascript, Bash, etc.
Experience with Windows as a development platform is a plus, but not required.
Experience with source code control systems like GIT, Subversion.
Experience using DevOps tools, like Chef, Jenkins, Circle CI, Puppet, Ansible, Cloud Formation Templates, Terraform, Docker etc.
Experience working with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Experience developing and using RESTful APIs (preferably micro services).
Knowledgeable about machine learning (concepts and application).
Experience or exposure to Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark).
Solid knowledge of secure coding practices and experience with open source technologies.
Strong teamwork, leadership, and time management skills.
Strong ability to learn new technologies in a short time.
Excellent written and oral communication skills on both technical and non-technical topics.
Work in a collaborative team environment.
Drive to accomplish team goals in a fast-paced environment.
Love to learn and develop new skills continuously.
Thrive on working with new technologies.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Data Scientist
Our client is seeking a Data Scientist to join their team in Portland, OR. The Data Scientist uses advanced techniques that integrate traditional and nontraditional datasets and methods to enable analytical solutions.

Qualifications of the Data Scientist
Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Statistics, or related field, or six-eight additional years of related experiences on complex tasks and or projects. Expertise using R, Python or equivalent analytic programming languages.
Deep experience working with SQL and databases.
Strong experience in developing sound analytics-based solutions to business problems.
Excellence in applying analytical rigor and technical proficiency to the business environment.
Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
Some barriers to entry exist at this level (i.e., dept/peer review).
Ability to clearly communicate complex analytical topics in a clean and simple way to multiple partners and senior leadership.
Excellent collaborator with partners, product and technical teams to contribute to tools development and influence prioritization.
Manipulate large data sets for business insights and implement solutions, specifically focused on advanced problems and models.
Champion the use of statistics, distributions and confidence intervals to make decisions based on data.
Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may provide guidance to other personnel.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Database Administrator
Our client is seeking a Database Administrator to join their team in Portland, OR. The Database Administrator (DBA) II helps lead and inform the direction for all database technology environments This position works within the Product Engineering team to provide support for all development, test and production database environments to ensure availability, reliability, scalability, backup, recovery and performance. In addition, the DBA II is expected to participate in the 24x7 on-call support rotation. As required, the Data Base Administrator II may assist with mentorship to DBA I personnel.
Responsibilities of the Database Administrator
Install, configure, and test new database configurations; perform version upgrades of existing databases
Install, upgrade and maintain all database-related server and administration software
Perform database profiling and optimization; analyze proposed schema changes as needed
Proactively monitor activity, utilization, exceptions and database health; propose and deploy appropriate improvements; automate repetitive tasks
Collaborate with team members to create, publish and maintain database deployment methods and procedures for databases.
Perform database backup and recovery duties; inform standards and schedules for database backups; ensure that backup schedules meet the recovery requirements and conforms to all database and data quality policies and standards.
Work closely with project teams to ensure project success; coordinate product releases, data structure evolution, and manage and synchronize data promotions between development, test and production environments.
Act as a point of escalation and resolution for data-related issues.
Provide advanced technical support for delivery teams and developers working with databases.
Provide 24x7 database support as part of a rotation of on-call DBAs.
Implement and maintain archival and high availability strategies.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.

Qualifications of the Database Administrator
Working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL or other comparable RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies.
Experience with MySQL and/or Redis.
Experience in configuring, implementing and supporting high availability strategies with database. systems including clustering and replication.
Experience with database performance tuning, optimizations and troubleshooting, and federation strategies.
Experience in software development using Python, Shell or other scripting languages.
Familiarity with auditing and implementing secure database practices.
Working knowledge of command line Linux, especially CentOS.
Solution focused and methodical, careful attention to detail.
Ability to communicate ideas and designs to all stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.
Ability to work unsupervised and seek out work with minimal direction.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role with or without accommodation.

Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum 1 year of experience working with MongoDB and PostgreSQL in a production environment; experience should include administering servers in an enterprise level environment with very large (> 1 terabyte) databases.
Experience supporting a SaaS platform as a Linux professional.
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience with the following is highly desirable: AWS Management (particularly DynamoDB and RDS), Puppet, Hiera, New Relic, Nagios, Git, Foreman, Jenkins, Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).
Exposure to and understanding of VMware virtualization.
Demonstrated analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a DataStage Developer to join their dynamic team in Portland, OR. This role is for their HR Optimization project. This project will replace their PeopleSoft HR system with Workdays HR system. Your responsibilities will be building/coding DataStage integrations/interfaces for our client’s HR System replacement project. You will be working on an IT team of approximately 15, which includes 4 developer and 3 IT-BA.

DataStage Developer Qualifications:
2 years of experience required.
Knowledge of Datastage, SQL, PL-SQL Oracle databases, required.
Basic knowledge of Java, Python or other scripting language preferred.
Knowledge of UC4 (Appworx) and WorkDay a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
WorkDay and/or HR systems knowledge a plus.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

DAX Architect
Our client is seeking a highly-driven, Skilled DAX Architect to to lead and direct a team of 2 developers located in Portland and a flexible vendor team onshore and offshore location. The successful candidate will work effectively with cross-functional teams across technology and business units and provide experienced technical leadership and direction to the team to propose, develop and deploy innovative and cost-effective solutions in support of the global business expansion and improved operational efficiency.

This position requires deep Microsoft DAX Manufacturing (Scheduling, Inventory, MRP, QC, Outbound logistics and delivery), Dynamics Stores and financials experience. A successful candidate would be expected to have strong in Solution Architecture, Operations Management, and technical delivery skills. Experience with upgrading from version 9 to DAX365 would be preferable. If hired, you will be a single point of contact for all Microsoft DAX functionalities for both these business units.
Responsibilities of the DAX Architect
Upgrading MSDAX for Sutter Street from V9 to D365 and planning for a future upgrade.
Responsibility for Solution and Technical Architecture.
Identify technical solutions, related cost and resource requirements.
Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of internal and contract developers in an Enterprise Production Support environment.
Set, report, and attain service level, business, and productivity metrics.
Participate in financial management and reporting activities including budget development, quarterly forecasting, and monthly variance reporting.
Provide project and resource development plans and management.
Participate in project proposals.
Participate and provide leadership in package software selection and vendor negotiations.
Manage projects and support activities to aggressive time and dollar constraints.
Work closely and effectively with internal business partners, external consultants, and other technology managers and staff to ensure productive and adaptable working relationships.
Facilitate management initiatives, process improvements, career and staff development, and strategic planning within technology to support aggressive business growth.

Qualifications of the DAX Architect
10 years of experience in progressively responsible experience in Information Technology.
5 years' experience in complex Solution architecture in the Microsoft DAX environment, project management, and people supervision/ management.
Bachelor's engineering degree or equivalent experience.
Very strong Technical Microsoft DAX skills.
Strong knowledge of and experience with all phases of systems development life cycle for large systems, including strategy development.
Strong team building, staff development, change management, and leadership skills.
Demonstrated success in working effectively with defined business partners, vendors, and consultant resources to support large production support environments.
Strong interpersonal and communications skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Design Lead to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. This is a unique opportunity to join our client’s new business incubator. In support of that mission, they are currently seeking an experienced Design Lead (contract) who will support the team’s overall storytelling and engagement efforts. Our ideal candidate is a creative self-starter with a keen eye for detail and a passion for visual storytelling.

Design Lead Responsibilities:
Develop creative collateral, presentations and branded assets.
Partner with key leaders and teams to develop simple design solutions to complex design problems.
Support the development and design of new communications channels (print, video, web).
Partner with external vendors and agencies to ensure consistent creative production.
Develop and manage the team’s brand standards, assets and guidelines.
Provide ad hoc design and consulting support to other teams as needed.

Design Lead Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree is graphic design, fine arts, visual communications, or other closely related field.
Minimum of five years’ experience preferably within an agency or in-house design team.
Strong familiarity with current trends, color and design.
Creative problem solver with high attention to detail.
Organized, independent and able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote and PowerPoint.
Knowledge of HTML and CSS strongly preferred.
Interest in photography and video production a plus.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Designer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. This role is a 4-week contract position. The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials. Experience in Premeire and AfterEffects, Photoshop and Sketch is required. Also, looking for production support on content ranging from stills to video.

Designer Responsibilities:Product Design - With supervision from Design management, uses design skills to create original product designs or refreshes existing products that appropriately reflect design philosophy & standards.
May also do an "apprenticeship" with senior designers, completing details of product process in lieu of a full project.
Advances design image, product performance, and inspires targeted consumers.

Process/Timeline - Works with design leadership and Category team members in Design, Development, and Product Management to ensure feasibility of designs, meeting price points, merchandising needs and product creation timelines.

Communication - Communicates and presents design concepts to various internal and external audiences along with more senior Designers.
Produces presentation materials in conjunction with the Design and Category teams that effectively communicate the concept behind the line for internal and external audiences.

Skill/Knowledge Development - Proactively works with Design management and/or more senior Designers to build and advance personal portfolio of design skills, experiences, and product/process knowledge.
Builds design skills, experiences, and product/process knowledge.
Builds awareness of current trends, color, and sports-related products through market research to keep abreast of consumer needs.
Provides design support for design team as needed outside of assigned product load.

Designer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 0-1 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 year; Masters + 0-3 years; Associates degree + 1-3 years; High School + 3-5 years.
Minimum of 0-1 years technically sophisticated experience in product design.
Experience in Premeire and AfterEffects, Photoshop and Sketch.
Strong product design experience, preferred.
Ability to manage 1 project per season at C or D level.
General ability to apply and perform design skills (drawing/sketching, ideation, color theory, texture, visual presentation).
Familiarity with trends influencing design in athletic industry.
Knowledge of computer design applications.
Effective written and oral communication skills, including ability to deliver presentations.
Ability to work cooperatively with staff.

4-week contract

Pay range: $30-32/hour W2 DOEBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Dev Ops Engineer
Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. The DevOps engineers configure, deploy, monitor and triage applications in our co-located data centers. Additionally, DevOps help shepherd best practices, evangelize CI/CD, and automate all of the things.

Responsibilities
Manage, configure, patch and maintain a fleet of 2,500+ CentOS 6/7 VMs across three co-located data centers.
Automate system processes and develop tooling for easing administration burden.
Implement security best practices across Linux VMs, third-party software, and AWS services.
Participate in software development processes to support regular software releases.
Participate in the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools.
Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance.
Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations.
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for production applications.

Preferred
Experience working with Postgres and MySQL.
Experience working with MongoDB.
Experience with Sensu, Prometheus, Nagios, and PagerDuty.
Experience with ELK stack (Filebeat, LogStash, Elastisearch).
Experience with Foreman, VMWare ESXI, vCenter.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

DevOps Engineer
Our client is looking for a DevOps Engineer who can realize our strategy for continuous integration, automated infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring. Work to migrate our existing infrastructure to that vision and support our project and product engineering teams in a wide range of varying deployments. Monitor our production systems for reliability and security issues, report and follow up on any issue detected. This role is located in Portland, OR, but also open to their office in New York, NY.

Responsibilities of the DevOPs Engineer
Install, configure, maintain and automate Linux and serverless environments in different geographies via various configuration management and/or orchestration tools.
Enhance the continuous integration and deployment systems to support regular software releases.
Manage, monitor, and assist in troubleshooting production systems.
Evaluate, select, and deploy of new technologies and tools.
Work with project management and product engineering to determine the parameters and priorities for system deployments.
Work with product engineering to optimize overall system performance.
Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations.
Follow best security practices for system administration, management, and deployment.

Qualifications of the DevOps Engineer
BS in science engineering or other technical discipline; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
5+ years related experience of Linux system admin experience.
Experience with CI/CD processes and methods.
Experience in automating large scale Linux environments utilizing one or more of the following: Ruby, Perl, Bash, or Python.
Experience with configuration management tools: Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools: CloudFormation or Terraform.
Expert-level understanding of virtualization and container (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) technology.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred).
Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. Agile software development, test-driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.
Experience with database infrastructure and access in a Distributed Cloud or containerized environments preferred.
Familiarity with git and the git rebase workflow.
Ability to work well with a distributed team.
Excellent written; presentation writing and verbal communication skills.
History of working in startups or other fast-paced environment.

Preferred
Experience with serverless architectures.
Experience with GraphQL.
Experience contributing meaningfully to one or more Open Source projects.
Experience working with time-series datasets.
Familiarity with Blockchain and Smart Contract concepts.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

DevOps Engineer
Our client is a young creative company who works with cutting-edge technology. They are seeking a Devops Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. This position will work collaboratively with IT infrastructure and software engineering to deploy and operate custom built applications and commercially available systems and applications. We are looking for a results-oriented team member responsible for supporting automated processes and technologies to enable team agility and progress digital transformation particularly by building and maintaining continuous integration and delivery pipelines.

Qualifications
Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration.
Intermediate background in Windows administration and Active Directory.
1+ years of experience in a DevOps role doing version control, continuous integration, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
1+ years of experience with Docker-based deployments and hands on experience using kubernetes.
6+ months of experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible.
Expert knowledge of Jenkins, Jenkins jobs and pipelines.
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services, using Azure.
Strong working understanding of scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript).
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
Solid attention to detail and documentation skills.
Effective time management, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to effectively work in a team environment and independently as needed.
Ability to be on call after hours as needed.

Preferred
Hands on experience using SQL Server and MongoDB.
Experience with nginx.
Experience with micro-services architecture.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer to join their Big Data cloud operations team in Beaverton, OR. This is a unique opportunity to support a dynamic team of data scientists, data engineers, and data analysts working with cutting edge Big Data technology.

They are looking for experience in Hadoop, AWS, Systems/Data Administration and the ability work with 3rd party applications and databases. There will be work to set up new infrastructure components, integrate with existing data systems, create automation, support engineering and business users.

Educational qualifications
BS in Computer Science or related field, or excellent qualifications with relevant experience.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Digital Loss Prevention Business Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. This role will support the goal of providing exceptional implementation of a consistent and integrated reporting infrastructure, translating complex findings into simple formats and actionable insights. You’ll also be responsible for reporting on weekly/monthly/quarterly results and opportunities, organizing and working with other LP professionals in other geographies to drive key initiatives across the company.
The role will require the ability to extract data from various sources & to design/construct/execute complex analyses to finally come up with data/reports that help solve the business problem. You'll also develop high-impact presentations to communicate the health of our client’s Digital Loss Prevention and provide recommendations for opportunities. In addition, you'll lead research and analytical work to identify, resolve and help implement solutions to key business issues that arise.

Digital Loss Prevention Business Analyst Responsibilities:
Understand the vision, direction and culture of Digital Loss Prevention.
Responsible to develop and maintain reports on daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly business and operational metrics; identify trends and opportunities that tell a story with data.
Provide analysis support on projects, new initiatives and strategic business decisions.
Lead research and analytical work to identify, resolve and implement solutions to key business issues that arise.
Proactively gather the right data from appropriate sources, probes/considers all of the facts, considers other perspectives; conducts root cause analysis; refers to long term plans and goals; prioritizes key factors; acts decisively, promptly and confidently.
Design and implement reporting solutions that enable stakeholders to manage the business and make effective decisions.
Support in aligning process across key cross-functional partners – Supply Chain/Finance/Ops.
Support various analytics projects, and take the lead to collaborate directly with the business as needed.
You’ll lead the ongoing management of tools and processes supporting the deployment tracks, establishing scorecard metrics to monitor progress.
Monitor existing metrics and partnering with internal and external teams to identify process and system improvement opportunities.
Retrieve and analyze data from various loss prevention system for both brick & mortar and company website.
Turn data into visualized, actionable analysis and metrics and identify opportunities for business drivers.
Package results from analysis into one consistent cohesive message.

Digital Loss Prevention Business Analyst Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or experience in a related field.
Prior experience or knowledge within Digital Loss Prevention and Payment Fraud Risk management preferred.
Strong SQL and knowledge of database architecture required.
2-3 years of experience with integrating qualitative and quantitative analytics to produce holistic conclusions.
2-3 years of experience in broad-based business analytics roles including application of insights to complex business problems, and developing high-impact management and operational reporting.
Experience working in an unstructured data environment preferred.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required. Mac/ Keynote skills highly preferred.
Prior experience in design and execution of analytical projects; experience with large scale databases and data warehouses in a business environment.
• Proven ability to turn data into visualized, actionable analysis and metrics – make data tell a story.
• Strong oral, written and presentation skills combined with the ability to articulate complex business drivers.
• Experience with other business reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau) and data warehouses and an ability to use data to back up assumptions and develop business cases.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Digital Loss Prevention Specialist to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on presenting and merchandising product to consumers.

Digital Loss Prevention Specialist Responsibilities:
Evaluate transactions using established criteria to detect potential incidents of fraud.
Follow procedures to cancel, suspend or further investigate suspicious orders.
Analyze the results of reports and system queries to identify areas of potential concern.
Develop the competencies and expertise necessary to identify fraud warning signs and noteworthy trends in transaction data.
Maintain support documentation and keep adequate records to enable Loss Prevention or law enforcement to investigate and resolve cases of fraud and abuse.
Provide fraud investigation and troubleshooting support to internal functions and third-party service providers.
Make recommendations for process improvements and help Fraud Analysts and Manager fine-tune the criteria used to identify incidents of fraud and abuse.

Digital Loss Prevention Specialist Qualifications:
Minimum of 1 year of experience in Customer Service, Loss Prevention, Security investigation or criminal investigation. Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking to hire a Digital Operations Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. This role will support their North America Digital Supply Chain Operations organization. This role will be focused on driving the supply chain performance for improved operational efficiency to serve athletes to fuel the culture of sport and drive sustainable and profitable growth for the company.

The candidate should be a service-oriented team player passionate about sport and excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact.

Digital Operations Analyst Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, CS, IS, Economics, or other business-related field required.
Team player who is able to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Self-starter, able to work autonomously, prioritize and manage workload and schedule.
Meticulous and well organized.
Attention to detail and accuracy, particularly with numbers.
Comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities.
MS Office suite, especially PowerPoint, Excel.

Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of SQL, Tableau, Alteryx, Python, AWS Snowflake.
Supply chain, retail, e-commerce experience.
Statistical analysis.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Digital Operations Technical Producer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on consumer insights, assortment planning, Go to Market, and product management activities.

Digital Operations Technical Producer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 0-1 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 year; Masters + 0-3 years; Associates degree + 1-3 years; High School + 3-5 years.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Director of Finance
Our international manufacturing client has a unique product in a booming industry and is searching for a Director of Finance to oversee their financial operations. This is a national industry leader experiencing a great deal of success through acquisition, and organic growth. This role will require a good deal of travel.

Director of Finance Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business; active CPA and Big 4 background required.
10-15 years of progressively responsible public accounting experience, including experience in a managerial role.
Manufacturing background required.
Knowledge of GAAP and IFRS required.
Experience analyzing accounting and business trends and reporting those findings along with recommending improvements.
Experience with foreign currency and commodity risk management required.
Strong understanding of risk management and internal controls.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Dynamics AX a plus.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong passion for financial planning and accounting analysis.
Self-motivated and driven.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.#VH1ndAF

Director of Finance
Our Portland medical client is looking for a Director of Finance to oversee financial planning and analysis, partnering with executive management in a strategic role.

Responsibilities of the Director of Finance
Develop, oversee, and train finance staff.
Coordinate and manage financial management and strategy.
Oversee financial analysis and research functions.
Partner with senior executives to develop business and operational plans.
Develop performance metrics and KPIs for strategic financial functions.
Support mergers and acquisitions.
Budgeting and forecasting.
Financial modeling for forecasting and analysis.
Develop strategic relationships with stakeholders and outside partners.
Provide expertise in cash flow analysis, financial modeling, and operational budgeting for managers in organization.
Oversee corporate project portfolios.
Manage cost stewardship activities.
Lead the continuous development and implementation of business modeling and operational planning policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Other special projects and duties as needed.

Director of Finance Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related.
10 years of progressively responsible financial management experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory role.
CPA, CMA, MBA or ASA preferred.
Healthcare background preferred.
Advanced knowledge of GAAP, SAP, cash flow and cost accounting.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Results driven and persistent.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Director of FP&A
Our national client is looking for a Director of FP&A to lead strategic planning and analysis for their Finance team in Portland. This role will seat with a fun and ambitious group, and comes with a lot of perks!

Director of FP&A Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related; Masters degree preferred.
10 years of financial planning and analysis experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory role.
Background in pharmaceuticals a plus.
Experience as a consultant preferred.
Dashboards experience highly preferred: Oracle, Business Objects, etc.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel and Word; Excel power user a huge plus.
ERP systems and OLAP tools knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Director of Pricing
Our Pacific Northwest client has been supporting our community through education for 50 years. They are in need of a Director of Pricing to oversee their pricing team. This role will be joining their large family of employees in Portland, where they will gain professional development in a dynamic and nurturing atmosphere. This role is a great opportunity to join a company that values its employees and offers a variety of perks!

Responsibilities of the Director of Pricing
Pricing and enrollment review and analysis.
Identify brand performance and enrollment opportunities.
Market analysis for enrollment.
Lead the continuous development, standardization, and implementation of pricing tools, policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Business modeling and assessment.
Risk analysis.
Analyze campaign and promotional opportunities.
Trend analysis.
Develop and train pricing team.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Director of Pricing Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or related field required; MBA preferred.
7 years of financial analysis and accounting experience in a mid to large multi-entity company environment.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
Complex financial analysis experience required.
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
Intermediate to advanced pricing and modeling experience required.
ERP systems knowledge; Oracle, Cognos, and Hyperion preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Team-building skills.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Drafter Designer/CAD 1
Our client is seeking a The CAD Designer will work alongside engineering and project management teams to develop product designs and the resulting documentation. The designer will perform a variety of design and drafting activities using SolidWorks CAD Software. These activities will include: 3D CAD modeling, new drawing preparation, updating existing production drawings, Bills of Material (BOM) preparation, and facilitating engineering changes in the Product Data Management system. All documentation created by the CAD Designer will company standards.

Drafter Designer/CAD 1 Responsibilities
Utilizes industry knowledge, engineering practices, mathematics, materials knowledge, etc. to complete product designs.
Communicate with engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing regarding new and revised drawings.
Maintains notes, design calculations and other documentation (BOMs, list of design parameters, and requirements) for future reference.
Complete additional tasks related to product data management (PDM).
Work independently based on instructions, directions, or requests received from engineers .
Assist engineering and project management staff with day to day project tasks such as contacting vendors, researching product specifications, or other support functions.
Adhere to practices, policies, and procedures for document revision control.
Stay up-to-date on industry and company standards.

Drafter Designer/CAD1 Qualifications
Associate degree or completion of a technical trade school in CAD, drafting or related field, plus at least two years of related work experience: or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Preferred
Working knowledge of ASME drawing standards.
Working or expert knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing GD&T.
Experience with ASME standards for Model Based Definition (MBD).
Experience with CATIA Design software.
Experience with a Product Data Management (PDM) software.
Familiarity with CAM software and equipment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Drafter Designer/CAD2
Our client is seeking a CAD Designer to join their team in Hood River, OR. The CAD Designer will work alongside engineering and project management teams to develop product designs and the resulting documentation. The designer will perform a variety of design and drafting activities using SolidWorks CAD Software. These activities will include: 3D CAD modeling, new drawing preparation, updating existing production drawings, Bills of Material (BOM) preparation, and facilitating engineering changes in the Product Data Management system. All documentation created by the CAD Designer will follow ASME and company standards.

Drafter Designer/CAD2 Responsibilities
Utilizes industry knowledge, engineering practices, mathematics, materials knowledge, etc. to complete product designs.
Communicate with engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing regarding new and revised drawings.
Maintains notes, design calculations and other documentation (BOMs, list of design parameters, and requirements) for future reference.
Complete additional tasks related to product data management (PDM).
Work independently based on instructions, directions, or requests received from engineers.
Assist engineering and project management staff with day to day project tasks such as contacting vendors, researching product specifications, or other support functions.
Adhere to practices, policies, and procedures for document revision control.
Stay up-to-date on industry and company standards.

Drafter Designer/CAD2 Qualifications
Associate's degree or completion of a technical trade school in CAD, drafting or related field, plus at least two years of related work experience: or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Proficient in SolidWorks CAD software (modeling and drawings).
Familiarity with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
Knowledgeable of ASME drafting practices and procedures.
Excellent communications skills: interpersonal, listening, oral, and written.
Skilled in PC usage and associated software including Microsoft Office.

Preferred
Working knowledge of ASME drawing standards.
Working or expert knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing GD&T.
Experience with ASME standards for Model Based Definition (MBD).
Experience with CATIA Design software.
Experience with a Product Data Management (PDM) software.
Familiarity with CAM software and equipment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Electrical Designer
Our client has an immediate opening for an Electrical Designer to join their dynamic, fast-paced team in Hillsboro, OR.

Electrical Designer Responsibilities
Electrical Design for the tool installation for a large semiconductor client.
Create electrical drawings to meet design and client needs.
Perform all appropriate calculations (e.g. distribution panel loading, short circuit, voltage drop, conduit & conductor size and cable tray fill) required for the electrical design packages.
Conduct field investigations of construction site and clean room environments to verify existing conditions and incorporate findings into design packages.
Manage and incorporate electronic redlines from the Electrical Engineer using established company workflows.
Coordinate with other design disciplines (Mechanical, Structural, Architectural) for design package needs.
Ensure quality control by complying with team Design and CAD standards.
Attend design review meetings, note all design comments, and pick up the resulting redlines.
Assist colleagues with CAD support.
Provide quality reviews of models and documents prepared by others to assure design and project standards are met.
Coordinate with document control personnel for review and transmission of design packages.

Electrical Designer Qualifications
Familiar with the International and Oregon Electric Codes.
Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures in the design of Power Circuits and I&C systems.
Autodesk AutoCAD 2D (2015) required.
Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook Proficient.
Autodesk AutoCAD 3D/Revit/Inventor preferred.
EasyPower Proficient – Not required but is a plus.
Associates/Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
Electrical EIT or PE – not required, but a plus.
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects with quick turn-around times.
Comfortable working independently as well as in an interactive design environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

Electrical Engineer Qualifications
This job is limited to employees who, in the performance of their assigned work, regularly apply engineering disciplines to the research, design, development, test, and evaluation of company products, facilities, or manufacturing process and have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree of Science from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry.
2-4 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or 0-2 years’ experience in an engineering classification with a Master's degree.
Ability to analyze problems (troubleshooting, fault isolation, repair, modification, or redesign) of assigned end items to support the design, development and modification of company products using

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Electrical Engineer
Our client is seeking an Electrical Engineer with 5-10 years’ experience in a consulting engineering environment. Applicants must be well versed in all aspects of electrical systems design. Experience in healthcare, hospitality, industrial, commercial, military, and high-rise projects is desired. The successful individual should be comfortable consulting to architectural practices and have a desire to work on a multi-discipline engineering team.

Qualifications
B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
Registration as P.E. is preferred.
Must be able to obtain a security clearance from the U.S. Government.
Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
Must have a desire to grow into a project management role.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Electrical Engineer Qualifications
This job is limited to employees who, in the performance of their assigned work, regularly apply engineering disciplines to the research, design, development, test, and evaluation of company products, facilities, or manufacturing process and have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree of Science from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry.
2-4 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or 0-2 years experience in an engineering classification with a Master's degree.

Preferred
8-10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering.
Preferably knowledgeable in Mentor Graphics DxDesigner/Expedition design toolset.
Design experience with Digital, Analog and Power Supply circuits.
Experience in troubleshooting electronic designs.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Electro-Mechanical Engineer
Our client has an immediate opening for a Electro-Mechanical Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. The Engineer will apply technical expertise in mechanical engineering, electronics, physics, and computer sciences in the design, modification, and operation of measurement systems and automated test equipment to generate valid data.

Typical test data will be mechanical (force, pressure, vibration, etc.) or electrical (voltage, current, frequency) in nature from which design engineers, test technicians and other customers make manufacturing process, product design and/or testing process decisions. In addition, this role is highly interactive within the company and may require using engineering judgment to make recommendations to an internal audience regarding testing or design.

Qualifications of the Electro-Mechanical Engineer
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in physics, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering with demonstrated.
Experience in multiple engineering disciplines other than major degree area.
Three to five years of experience as a measurement engineer or similar role.
Experience with multi-channel data acquisition systems.
Experience with high speed and thermal photography.
Experience in mechanical design of test systems.
Electrical engineering experience preferred, but not required.
Project management experience.
Experience with a broad range of manufacturing processes.

Solve problems analytically; search out relevant information and determine importance.
Rapidly responds to changes in direction, priorities, and project requirements.
Contributes to an atmosphere that enhances productivity and collaboration across a global company.
Ensures that deadlines are met by managing lead time, equipment and resources.
Coaches internal customers on testing options and appropriate testing balance.
Anticipates the need of future resources and responds appropriately.
Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in technical and non-technical terms to varied audiences while receiving feedback.
Creative thinker.
Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn; seek out development activities to improve skills and increase knowledge; learn from other team members and own mistakes.
Take initiative, seek and act on opportunities to improve organization performance.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and data management software (SAP preferred).
Available to work on site as required by job.
Eligible for occasional domestic and international travel.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Engine Design Technician Qualifications
Knowledge of and previous experience troubleshooting and repairing 2-stroke engines strongly preferred.
Knowledge of machines and tools, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects
Knowledge of AS9100 requirements.
Experience with, and working knowledge of, the effects of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) on electromechanical and electronics systems, and associated precautionary practices.
Ability to lift 50 lb loads repeatedly during a working day.
High School and 4 years of related experience.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engineering Supervisor-Facilities
Our client is an exceptional global manufacturing company located in Portland, Oregon. We are recruiting for an Engineering Supervisor to lead and manage the facility service department and support administrative tasks to the electrical department. The person in this role will have excellent organizational skills, be proficient with collaborating cross-functionally, have experience with lean manufacturing and change management, and be highly skilled in applying engineering principles, practices theories and technologies related to manufacturing and administration facility.

Qualifications of the Engineering Supervisor-Facilities
BS in Engineering or equivalent discipline.
10+ years Facility maintenance experience.
Full understanding of TPM strategies and concepts.
3+ years supervisory experience required.
Working knowledge of SAP (preferred), CMMS or similar ERP.
Customer service experience (preferred).
Highly skilled in applying engineering principles, practices, theories and technologies related to manufacturing and administration facility.
Demonstrated ability to apply principles within projects that require calculations to define or determine a solution. This includes ability to identify alternative methods to check and verify solutions.
Knowledge of structural properties, water systems, hydraulics, heat transfer and fluid piping desired.
Able to read facility diagrams and blue prints.
Proficient using data collection and analysis to identify improvement opportunities with energy use, machine reliability and performance.
Demonstrated ability to apply project management skills, develop departmental budgets, preparing negotiating and administering contracts for specialized facilities work.
Demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate, manage and prioritize workflow ensuring accurate and timely completion of work.
High energy and activity-based behavior with demonstrated ability to achieve desired results or outcome.
Ability to translate specific goals into action and follow through to achieve goals.
Demonstrated effectiveness as a collaborative team leader; excellent interpersonal skills; active and respectful listener who can foster teamwork.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Enterprise SalesForce Architect and Team Lead
Our client is seeking an Enterprise Salesforce Architect and Team Lead to join their IT Operations team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Are you an experienced Salesforce developer who is looking for a new challenge? Bring your technology passion to our team and contribute your expertise to design and build a world-class Salesforce platform to meet the evolving requirements for our business and our customers. You will get to work with a supportive and fast-paced team building the latest Salesforce technologies with opportunities to continue to develop your knowledge and skills.

Looking for someone to provide expertise across the Salesforce spectrum, such as architecture, development & configuration. This hands-on leader will be directly responsible for ongoing oversight of all activities related to Salesforce strategy and capabilities.

Enterprise SalesForce Architect and Team Lead Responsibilities
Act as a hands on subject matter expert to oversee Salesforce development, configurations, integration, enhancements, customizations, and delivery.
Develop automated and customized solutions within the Salesforce platform to support critical business functions and meet project objectives, client requirements and company goals.
Works with team members to lead development of specifications and technical designs for complex projects using a combination of out of the box features and custom code.
Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
Collaborate with various internal departments, including sales, marketing, product development and operations to ensure Salesforce environment supports internal needs relating to functionality and performance.
Maintain an agile and dynamic delivery to facilitate timely responses to changing project requirements and customer objectives, and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
Provide administration support of internal and customer-facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflow.

Preferred:
Salesforce Developer Certification.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Certification is a plus.
Experience in Agile development methodology/Scrum.
Experience in developing and consuming web services.
Experience with Salesforce DMP is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Epic Applications Analyst-ClinDoc
Our client is seeking an Epic Applications Analyst-ClinDoc to join their team in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities of the Epic Applications Analyst-ClinDoc
Develop and modify system configurations that meet design requirements.
Provide complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirement gathering.
Analyze system requirements and determine system functional specifications.
Provide consulting support for customized implementation and installation of the software and related integration elements. Prioritize system build efforts.
Understand and translate the business functionality into Epic system configuration and workflow validations. Work closely with business users and application team to design, build and execute a comprehensive integration and user acceptance test plan and scripts.
Gather requirements, provide fit gap analysis and create effective technical solutions for the business needs.
Collaborate with vendors, staff and analysts to resolve outstanding issue relating to design and workflow challenges.
Conduct most phases of testing: unit, assembly, integration and user acceptance tests. Follow project compliance procedures such as obtaining sign-offs before developing program code or migration to production.
Provide input on required processes and schedule dependencies on the overall project roll-out plan. Proactively identify impact of changes upon other applications and downstream systems.
Update Change Control schedule with upcoming production releases and monitor production of recently migrated components.
Lead large groups to make key decisions.
Work with the team leadership to create detailed application designs that conform to application architecture guidelines.
Create and maintain all necessary documentation and training materials for application implementation and changes.
Provide highly complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirement gathering.
Conduct programming code related peer reviews; resolve issues.
Audit Application Analyst's work; train and mentor Application Analysts. Resolve the most complex technical applications issues.
Conduct all phases of testing: unit, assembly, integration and user acceptance tests.
Design test approach for unit testing stage for releases & enhancements.
Develop and execute test plan and test scripts for unit testing and maintain log of test results.
Collaborate with Application Analysts from other service lines to build test plans for integration testing.
Work with project and infrastructure team to manage and maintain test environments as needed. Prepare cycle test environment including data, processes and configuration setup tests as necessary.
Lead highly complex technical decision-making efforts.
Proficient in all aspects of design, development and testing and best practices of Enterprise application implementations.

Qualifications of the Epic Applications Analyst-ClinDoc
Bachelor's degree OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proficient in complex troubleshooting and problem solving, performing root cause analysis on development and production support related issues.
Minimum 9 years industry related experience (healthcare, information services, or within applicable area) with information services experience preferred.
Previous experience with client/server and host-based systems, SQL proficiency is preferred. Clinical experience is a plus.
Previous project management experience is preferred.
Previous Epic experience is strongly preferred.
Any certifications relating to software applications, technology infrastructure and or clinical specializations are an advantage.
Some application suites require advanced current clinical knowledge and expertise.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Epic Orders Analyst
Our client is looking for a Epic Orders Analyst to join their team. The Epic Application Analyst will design, validate and confirm new or changed functionality with the Epic environment that meets customer specifications.

Epic Orders Analyst Responsibilities
Develop and modify system configurations that meet design requirements.
Provide complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirement gathering.
Analyze system requirements and determine system functional specifications.
Provide consulting support for customized implementation and installation of the software and related integration elements.
Prioritize system build efforts.
Understand and translate the business functionality into Epic system configuration and workflow validations.
Work closely with business users and application team to design, build and execute a comprehensive integration and user acceptance test plan and scripts.
Gather requirements, provide fit gap analysis and create effective technical solutions for the business needs.
Collaborate with vendors, staff and analysts to resolve outstanding issue relating to design and workflow challenges.
Conduct most phases of testing: unit, assembly, integration and user acceptance tests.
Follow project compliance procedures such as obtaining sign-offs before developing program code or migration to production.
Provide input on required processes and schedule dependencies on the overall project roll-out plan.
Proactively identify impact of changes upon other applications and downstream systems.
Update Change Control schedule with upcoming production releases and monitor production of recently migrated components.
Lead large groups to make key decisions.
Work with the team leadership to create detailed application designs that conform to application architecture guidelines.
Create and maintain all necessary documentation and training materials for application implementation and changes.
Provide highly complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirement gathering.
Conduct programming code related peer reviews; resolve issues.
Audit Application Analyst's work; train and mentor Application Analysts.
Resolve the most complex technical applications issues.
Conduct all phases of testing: unit, assembly, integration and user acceptance tests.
Design test approach for unit testing stage for releases & enhancements.
Develop and execute test plan and test scripts for unit testing and maintain log of test results.
Collaborate with Application Analysts from other service lines to build test plans for integration testing.
Work with project and infrastructure team to manage and maintain test environments as needed.
Prepare cycle test environment including data, processes and configuration setup tests as necessary.
Lead highly complex technical decision making efforts.

Epic Orders Analyst Qualifications
Proficient in all aspects of design, development and testing and best practices of Enterprise application implementations.
Proficient in complex troubleshooting and problem solving, performing root cause analysis on development and production support related issues.
Bachelor's degree OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum 9 years industry related experience (healthcare, information services, or within applicable area) with information services experience preferred.
Previous experience with client/server and host based systems, SQL proficiency is preferred.
Clinical experience is a plus.
Previous project management experience is preferred.
Previous Epic experience is strongly preferred.
Any certifications relating to software applications, technology infrastructure and or clinical specializations are an advantage.
Some application suites require advanced current clinical knowledge and expertise (Pharmacist, RN and LPN) as demonstrated by a current state license.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Application Developer
Our client is seeking an Application Developer to join their team in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities
Design and implement key components of the Platform and web applications.
Collaborate closely with product management and UX to create innovative user interfaces and features, optimized for large scale requirements.
Debug client/server applications and troubleshoot integration issues.
Focus on Test Driven Development with automation Contribute technically to different work streams. Build production-quality systems for reliability and scale to a given timescale.

Qualifications
Passionate engineer for learning and working effectively in a nimble environment.
Have the ability to thrive in a high-pressured environment You are capable of contributing to discussions with upper management.
Capable of contributing to multiple projects/demands simultaneously.
Capable of working independently and drive results.
You are capable of picking up unfamiliar technologies quickly and utilize them as required.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Experience Designer
Our client is seeking an Experience Designer to join their team in Portland, OR. The Experience Designer is instrumental in devising useful, usable, and delightful user experiences. Working with a team of experts on a given project, the Experience Designer works to improve the user’s journey backed by robust research. The Experience Design team supports, consults on and drives the creation of user-centered digital experiences.

The Experience Design team works on a variety of projects from high-level, long-term conceptual work to quick-turn digital projects. As active members of the Creative Studio, they bring inspiration and brilliance to every project and deliver their best work every time. This team consists of a tightly knit group of individuals with strong communication skills and the ability to think beyond the obvious. Always willing to roll up his/her sleeves and get to work, the Experience Designer thinks strategically in support of usability best practices and cross-pollinates with colleagues to deliver elevated experiences that challenge the status quo, with the user always in mind.

This team works closely with colleagues in other departments—from IT to developers to product owners—and is expected to deliver projects that are strategically built and beautifully implemented.

Responsibilities
Provides technical and design support for other design staff, manages assigned projects between UX, UI and development.
Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
Translates user needs and business goals into effective user experiences.
(Includes user experience research, content strategy knowledge, information architecture, interaction design and interactive prototyping).
Works to improve user-centered research skills and stays current with industry trends for best-in-class user experiences.
Designs to user scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs.
Works with product teams and marketing managers to identify design goals and requirements, work with leadership on design reviews, and work with web developers on implementation.
Maintains a close relationship with engineering partners, understands the technical limitations and opportunities for development and design in any given project, discusses issues and collaborates on problem solving.
Maintains proficiency in current tools and practices, while investigating new methods.
Knows and effectively targets the member and their experience. Understands their likes/dislikes and how they interact with virtual technologies—achieved through independent research and active participation in UX testing and studies.
Works closely with other designers to execute an integrated approach for online/offline material.
Works with lead designers and visual designers to incorporate the right brand into features.
Works on small-scale projects with review from senior level, also supports senior staff on larger, complex projects.
Works on projects that stretch and grow them into senior level while creating and producing mid-scale projects, multiple projects at time and is able to manage their time efficiently.
Oversees development and conception of projects and reviews them with lead designer.
Works with product and marketing teams to identify design goals and requirements, work with website leadership on design reviews, and works with developers on implementation.
Serves as a point of contact for the marketing and product teams and owns the critical relationship.

Qualifications
Experience Designer would have a bachelor’s degree in UX/UI/Experience Design or related field and 3+ years of experience in UX design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong portfolio demonstrating UX best practices.
Fluent in best practices and practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies and usability principles.
Able to create detailed specifications, user flows, wireframes, mockups/prototypes, and style guides in an iterative environment.
Proficient in a variety of design tools. (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, and Lucid Chart, etc.)
Demonstrates general understanding of how design impacts development; a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible and prudent.
Able to apply strategic, conceptual and thoughtful design practice that supports best-in-class industry standards for user-centered research, approach and implementation for digital experiences.
Intimately familiar with the design process and capable of justifying design approaches with strong backing.
Demonstrates a knack for delivering strong creative concepts that meet specific goals as defined by the creative team and other stakeholders.
Has a keen eye for details and strong proofing skills to ensure digital and print communications follow corporate brand standards.
Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams (stakeholders, analysts, producers, developers, etc.) including the ability to broker differences and conflict well in a fast-paced environment, adapting quickly and effectively with regard to changing requirements.
Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
Background in creating experiences that meet cross browser compatibility targets and responsive design standards. A good understanding of the technical implications of design.
Front-end development knowledge including HTML/CSS and responsive frameworks a plus. Basic UI skills and understanding a plus.
Understanding of best-practices for back-end solutions and systems a plus.
Able to implement and support senior staff and creative studio on complex and simple projects, supports the great strategy of the team.
Demonstrates design expertise and advanced skills in their respective skillset.
Ability to scope projects accurately and prioritize work items appropriately.
Ability to think both tactically and strategically, including high levels of self-direction, innovation and imagination.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking an Expert Data Manager to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The Expert Data Manager will play a key role within the Digital Dash team to define business questions with various levels of stakeholders, design processes to collect the data to answer those questions, collaborate with the team’s Data Engineer to manage the schema and structure of the data, analyze the data to generate insights, and communicate the insights back in an appropriate visualization or report. Think Scrum Master meets BSA meets Project Manager meets Data Scientist. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to have a global impact on a greenfield project, helping our client’s Digital team truly transform into a data-driven organization.

Expert Data Manager Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 8 or 9 years directly relevant work experience.
Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 6 years; Masters + 7 years; Associates degree + 9 years; High School + 10 years.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Field Application Engineer
Our client is seeking a Field Application Engineers (FAE) to join their team in Hillsboro, OR. This role works with OEM’s and Brands and assist in formulating the product specification as per the customer's needs and accelerate the sales procedure accordingly. You will also design the training material involved in the technical field training and assist in providing field training to the sales team. In addition, you will be a resource on engineering projects within the design center when not involved on customer projects.

Responsibilities Field Application Engineers
Analyzing technological problems in customer application systems, checking its technical resolution and working condition, and fixing the same if required.
Collaborating with sales team, engineers, and product managers for obtaining accurate information of application usage, system operations, and product management.
Preparing technical elements of proposal, formulating the intricacies involved in defining the technical solution guidelines for sales team support
Troubleshooting system applications on customer's request, resolving other engineering issues regarding systems application, conducting regular follow up on customer's activities, and
monitoring the same for obtaining new sales opportunities.
Preparing relevant records, data, and documents for product presentations, conducting training sessions for demonstrating new products and services, and supporting the sales team in organizing the presentation and training of product demonstration.
Coordinating with the sales and marketing team, systems application team, and other executive designers for designing proper application system, and formulating the product specification as per the customer's needs and/or requests.

Qualifications
For accomplishing the role of FAE successfully, one must have the required knowledge and expertise in the related fields of SW and HW engineering.
The basic qualification required for this role is a bachelor's degree in engineering or other technology related field like electronics, mechanics, or environmental science depending on the product line offered by the particular company.
Though engineering graduates are preferred for this job, other technology graduates are also considered for this role.
Apart from the educational qualifications, certain skills are also needed for accomplishing the roles and
responsibilities of FAE effectively.
FAEs must have a good technological base for effectively understanding the technical specifications involved in application engineering, as they have to provide technical support, give technical presentations, and design and modify the application systems.
Along with this, they must also have good interpersonal skills, strong oral and written communication skills, and good organizational skills for effectively communicating the technical specifications to the customers.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Finance Manager
Our Portland nonprofit client has been serving the community for almost 50 years and is looking for a Finance Manager to manage the financials for their organization. This is a great opportunity to work for an organization that believes in helping the community in which they reside. This role comes with growth potential and great benefits!

Finance Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred.
5 years of progressively responsible accounting and finance management experience; nonprofit background preferred.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Focused and calm demeanor.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Financial Analyst
A dynamic Downtown Portland company is looking for a Financial Analyst to add to their team. This role will be supporting a very talented group, providing financial modeling and analysis to support business planning and growth initiatives. This role is an excellent opportunity to join an established organization committed to their employees, working in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment. Fully covered benefits and amazing work/life balance are just some of the fabulous perks one can look forward to from our client. The manager loves to mentor, teach, and share, and is ultimately looking for a sharp and eager self-starter to help develop their career.

Financial Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or similar.
2-6 years of financial analysis experience.
Working knowledge of financial statements and due diligence.
Financial modeling experience required.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Strong emotional intelligence required.
Passion for sustainability and experience in renewable energy is highly preferred!
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
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Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Our Portland client is looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to oversee operating and capital budgeting for their team in Portland. This role will be responsible for budgeting and forecasting functions and support executives with key decision making. This is a great opportunity to get on board with a longstanding company with a great reputation in the healthcare industry!

Responsibilities of the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Oversee budgeting process.
Develop and train FP&A staff.
Conduct performance evaluations.
Develop and revise budgets.
Financial modeling and reporting for budgeting and forecasting.
Variance analysis and review.
Lead the continuous development and implementation of FP&A, budgeting, and financial reporting policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Develop and monitor budgeting KPIs and metrics.
Support new business development opportunities.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business; Master's degree preferred.
8 years of financial planning and analysis experience.
3 years of supervisory experience, preferably in a healthcare setting.
Knowledge of GAAP and healthcare industry standards/trends.
MS Office Suite experience, with advanced skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Axiom preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and cross-functionally as part of an executive team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Fire Protection Engineer
Our client is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer with 2 to 5 years of experience to join their growing fire protection team! The successful individual will have professional experience in providing consulting to clients in various aspects of fire protection engineering. Technical skills will include, but not limited to: automatic suppression system design and analysis; fire detection, alarm and communication system design and analysis; fire and life safety code analysis; egress analysis; fire resistant rated construction analysis; smoke control design and special inspections; as well as general fire protection and life safety concepts.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited college or university in Fire Protection Engineering or Fire Sciences.
NICET level III / IV, EIT, or P.E.
Two to five years of experience in the fire protection engineering/consulting profession.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including oral presentations to external clients.

Desired Skills and Duties
Possess intermediate level computer skills necessary for daily activities, including email, word processing, spreadsheets, simple graphics, CONTAM, fire dynamic simulation, and a working knowledge of computer aided drafting.
Manage day-to-day contacts with internal and external clients utilizing experience and technology to meet expectations.
Attend and participate in local and national professional organizations, such as SFPE and NFPA.
Perform building and fire code analysis and code interpretations.
Develop engineering judgements for code alternatives.
Provide peer reviews of colleagues work product.
Have or be developing an “area of expertise” within fire protection engineering.
Design new fire protection systems including suppression systems, fire detection, alarm and communication systems. Perform analysis of existing fire protection systems.
Possess project management skills for managing internal projects as well as external client needs.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Fire Protection Engineer
Our client’s Los Angeles office is growing and they are looking for a Fire Protection Engineer with five (5) years of experience who is passionate about his or her craft and looking for an environment that promotes professional growth.

The successful individual will have professional experience in providing consulting to clients in various aspects of fire protection engineering. Technical skills will include, but not limited to: automatic suppression system design and analysis; fire detection, alarm and communication system design and analysis; fire and life safety code analysis; egress analysis; fire resistant rated construction analysis; smoke control design and special inspections; as well as general fire protection and life safety concepts.

Fire Protection Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited college or university in Fire Protection Engineering, Fire Sciences, or related engineering field.
NICET level III / IV, EIT, or P.E.
Minimum five (5) years of experience in the fire protection engineering/consulting profession.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including oral presentations to external clients.
Ability to work on a high-functioning team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Frontend/Full Stack Senior Software Engineer who excels in team environments and is excited about building cloud native platforms that can scale with the demand of the business. This role is located in Hillsboro, OR.

Frontend/Full Stack Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities:
Evangelize and cultivate adoption of Enterprise Platforms, open source software and agile principles within the organization.
Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture.
Deliver well-documented and well-tested code and participate in peer code reviews.
Design and develop tools and frameworks to improve security, reliability, maintainability, availability and performance for the technology foundation of our platform.
Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time.
Collaborate with and consult other development teams.
Explain designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams.
Assist in the support and operation of the platforms you help build.
Work with product management to support product / service scoping activities.
Work with leadership to define delivery schedules of key features through an agile framework.
Be a key contributor to overall architecture, framework and design of enterprise platforms.

Frontend/Full Stack Senior Software Engineer Qualifications:
Masters’ or Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience in large-scale software development.
5+ years of experience architecting and building scalable web architecture.
Prefer 5 or more years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or similar cloud platform.
5+ years of development experience in Javascript and Node.js.
3+ years of development experience with front-end development using JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc), HTML and CSS.
1+ years of development experience with designing and implementing secure and scalable RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs and Web Apps (Mobile Apps is a plus).
Experience with both relational and No-SQL databases.
Exposure to Serverless and/or Docker.
Experience with participating in projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment.
Exposure to Agile and test-driven development.
Exposure to hierarchical and distributed code repository management tools like GIT.
Great communications skills.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. Their team will be delivering product administration tools used to configure and manage product data for Digital consumption. They are looking for a full stack engineer with experience building out enterprise admin applications. Their ideal candidate would have experience with CI/CD deployments, ownership of a solution from end to end, experience with unit testing, performance testing, monitoring. This engineer should have experience with front end technologies and integrating with Rest APIs.

Their team is working with the following technologies:
React JS
Redux
Graph QL
Cypress
Jest
Jenkins 2
Docker and Dockercompose
Webpack
Storybook
Splunk
SignalFX
AWS EC2
AWS Elastic Search
AWS Dynamo
AWS Lambda
AWS RDS
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Full Stack Engineer (Java 8, React.js)
Our Consulting client will be hiring a Full Stack Engineer with Java 8+ and React.js experience to join their team in Beaverton, OR.

Their Engineers don't just code, they know WHY you'd use one tool over another.

In this role, you will join a team of Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to develop and grow systems that reach millions of consumers.

This is a values-based, family company, with leadership committed to empowering employees and providing an excellent work/life balance. People who thrive here want to learn the breadth and depth of technologies working on various projects.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Full Stack Quality & Application Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. You will design and develop solutions with a focus on Redact with Node and big data visualization. As a member of our innovative group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to be part of an evolving project and reshape strategic operations reporting.

Full Stack Quality & Application Engineer Responsibilities:
Deployment, support and monitoring of new platforms and application stacks.
Participate in new technology evaluation, design and development of highly scalable distributed databases.
Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward, getting ahead of user needs, and working hard to transform, innovate, and continuously improve.
The candidate will work with talented engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment to deliver new features.

Full Stack Quality & Application Engineer Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
3 years of experience with Reach and Redux skills, including demonstrated knowledge of AWS and scripting ability as well as OAuth understanding.
5+ years of experience of developing and maintaining code coverage in a high volume, customer-facing environment.
Superior React, Redux, Node programming and design skills and running web services at scale.
Understanding of fundamental principles behind a scalable application.
Write client-side code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to-use, production applications, and develop solutions quickly.
Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale to support diverse clients on high powered machines.
Consultancy approach to create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
Systematic multitasking problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and drive.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, automation, software design, and database management.
Advanced understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Experience with scripting languages and such as Shell and Python and multi-process architecture.
Demonstrated experience with AWS, ElasticSearch, writing hand-crafted SQL, PL/SQL.
Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
Phenomenal debugging and testing skills.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams.
Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality.
Aptitude to independently learn new technologies.
Passion for delivering the best quality product regardless of project scope.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
DevOps mentality and experience with Jenkins deployment pipelines and monitoring practices.
Conduct on call duties as need for urgent matters.
The candidate will work with talented engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment to deliver new features.
Throughout the process, you will work collaboratively with our team of engineers, partner with other teams such as Quality and Operations.
This position requires deep knowledge of software development.
You must be comfortable with rapidly evolving designs, requirements, and have excellent interpersonal skills.
The individual must be self-motivated, an amazing problem solver and a fast learner.
Very strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in writing commercial grade apps for high availability systems is a must.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys leading and contributing alongside a software development team. You are passionate about trying new approaches to problem solving.

Full Stack Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities:
Direct and contribute as technical lead and lead developer role on a project to build a React Native app with REST services on AWS.

Full Stack Senior Software Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other Engineering disciplines or Strong software programming skills.
At least 5-8 years of solid Software Development experience.
Full stack development with emphasis in Front End Web technologies like Javascript, React, Redux and Node.js or Java services.
Familiar with Cloud Services development experience preferably on AWS with ability to model, specify and consumer REST APIs.
Ability to understand technology deeply and ability to dive in and debug at any level in a software stack.
Familiarity with DevOps model of development and QA within a single team.
Experience with agile development methodologies namely SCRUM and Kan Ban.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a high performing Full Stack Software Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. This person will play a critical role in the development of our client’s Launch platform and provide our client’s most passionate members and consumers access to their most coveted products. In this role, you will be joining the team in delivering innovative and quality applications that enable a consistent, maintainable and highly scalable Launch experience. You will lead by example in ensuring their software is of the highest quality and be an advocate of new technology and development techniques. The successful candidate is a proven software engineer with excellent communication and relationship building skills in addition to current, hands-on coding skills.

Software Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other relevant subject area
3-5 years of technical experience.
Experience working in a Distributed/Cloud-based environment (e.g. Amazon EC2, GCE, Rackspace, Azure, etc.).
Prior experience in designing and implementing highly scalable web applications.
Diverse and deep experience in Web Front End development, including React, Redux, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Template technologies.
Exposure to backend development through micro services, RESTful services, NoSQL data stores, etc.
Ability to work in a complex environment.
Self-starter who can work without a lot of supervision or direction, willing to make decisions without checking with others.
Experience estimating work, planning, organization and implementing complex software projects.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
Must have agile experience with applied principles and methods.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Function Programmer
Our client is currently seeking software engineers/researchers to play a pivotal role in fulfilling their mission to make critical systems trustworthy.

Our client’s Engineers participate in one or more projects concurrently, and specific roles vary greatly according to skills, interests, and company needs. Your role may include technology research and development, requirements gathering, implementation, testing, formal verification, infrastructure development, project leadership, and/or supporting new business development. They are looking for people who can invent, learn, think, and inspire. We reward creativity and thrive on collaboration. If you are interested, please send your cover letter and resume. This role is located in Portland, OR.

Qualifications of the Functional Programmer
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
MS or PhD in CS or a related field desirable but optional, depending on specific role.
Must have hands-on experience developing software and/or performing computer science research. Demonstrated expertise in aspects of software development mentioned above.
Must work well with customers, including building rapport, identifying needs, and communicating with strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Must be highly motivated and able to self-manage to deadlines and quality goals.
Use tools such as functional programming languages (including Haskell) and formal verification techniques to design and develop advanced technologies for safety- and security-critical systems, networks, and applications.
Research areas include computer security, cyber physical systems, identity management, security risk analysis, machine learning, systems software, and networking.
Engineers work in small team settings and must successfully interact with clients, partners, and other employees in a highly cooperative, collaborative, and intellectually challenging environment.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

GIS Technician
Our client is seeking a GIS Technician to join their team in Portland, OR. This entry level position works to aid in processing and classification of remote sensing data and general production and QA/QC efforts across multiple disciplines within the company. The Technician is able to produce accurate and precise data in a consistent and timely manner. This individual has a strong interest and aptitude for working with remotely sensed data across GIS and CADD platforms.

Responsibilities
Supports the efforts of Analysts and Team Leaders in QA/QC.
Visually identifies blemishes or anomalies in data and takes appropriate action.
Manipulates and classifies data with great attention to detail and efficiency.
Meets reasonable deadlines.
Maintains precision and accuracy in high volume workflows.
Maintains composure with increased workload.
Takes direction from colleagues and management.
Keep processing and production sheets updated and accurate.
All other reasonable duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Proficiency in MS Office Suite and Google Drive.
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.Good communication skills & professionalism.
Aptitude for learning multiple geospatial software programs and technical disciplines.
Can maintain productivity while performing repetitive tasks.
Strong organizational skills.
Shows flexibility when being tasked.
Ability to learn from mistakes and take constructive criticism.
Ability to work well within a team environment.
Shows an interest in remote sensing and geodetics.
Ability to maintain a professional and positive demeanor in times of stress.
Strong writing skills.

Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge and skills: ESRI, CADD or vector-based software.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Global Demand Planning Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on the effective and efficient distribution of products and services to customers. The role will include some heavy reporting, report building, writing queries (Tableau, Cognos, SaaS-not required but helpful. Any system used from brand-new to avid user is great!

Global Demand Planning Analyst Responsibilities:
Attending meetings to understand the business and reporting on the different aspects of the business’ pending needs.
Someone who is comfortable working independently without much direction as well as being confident to speak to the data and reporting with any level of colleague during meetings is extremely valuable.
They will sit within Global Demand Planning, supporting 7 directors cross categorically helping to amplify their reporting.
There are some admin tasks associated with this in terms of calendaring out time and projects for the different planners they will interface with cross categorically as well (likely to interface with about 30 planners in the day to day).
Someone who can pull reports and information, and not only review it for what the data says, but taking it to that next level and thinking through what the data could be speaking to.
Develop, execute and report on detailed demand, inventory, purchase and/or delivery plans for categories, customers, or product types.
Analyze data and make recommendations in order to achieve profitability, customer coverage and inventory goals.
Gather, analyze and compile data related to demand and inventory plans.
Prepare data and graphs in a manner that effectively supports decision making.
Provide clear direction and timely resolution of capacity constraints.

Global Demand Planning Analyst Qualifications:
Analytical and inquisitive mind that is also okay with ambiguity and operating in “the grey” will do well in this role.
Ability to anticipate business needs is key.
Experience in the Supply Chain and/or in a retail/wholesale buying capacity.
Experience with Supply Chain processes, Inventory/Demand planning and control processes.
Advanced Excel skills required
Tableau experience preferred
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Graphic Designer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 or 6 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 years; Masters + 4 years; Associates degree + 6 years; High School + 7 years.
5 plus years of progressively technically sophisticated graphic design experience.
Proven ability to apply and perform graphic design skills, including drawing/sketching, typography, ideation, color theory, use of texture, spacing, and scale, visual presentation development and layout that is supported by a portfolio of non-computer-based creative art and graphic design.
Knowledge of and sensitivity to trends influencing design in general, and the athletic industry specifically. Demonstrated high level of expertise using graphic design software.
Strong oral and written communications skills in local market language, including meeting facilitation and presentations.
Ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives.
Ability to work cooperatively with staff, share ideas and develop effective responses.
Proven ability to work in a rapidly changing, high-growth environment.
Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands, and changes. and competing work priorities, demands, and changes. Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Grid Operations Systems Analyst
Our client is seeking a Grid Operations System Analyst to join their team in Portland, OR. This role operates the transmission and distribution systems in compliance with electric system reliability standards, applicable tariffs and other rules and take actions necessary to protect electrical equipment and ensure public safety.

Grid Operations Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Troubleshoots and maintains applications and systems used within the Control Center. Designs, implements and maintains multiple applications and systems. Maintains high availability of critical systems in the department. Supports integration efforts between systems.
Reviews operational processes, complex operational plans, procedures and documentation to support operations. Supports development and modification of real-time procedures and processes. Maintains the associated documentation and coordinates with other staff to implement improvements.
Provides support for reliability and cybersecurity compliance-related activities of the Grid Operations Center. Participates in regulatory audits, spot checks and other processes as a subject matter expert. Provides input, upon request, as a contributor to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards. Recommends and implements compliance documentation enhancements that improve operating efficiencies.
Participates in projects developing systems and applications used in the Control Center, including identifying requirements and user acceptance criteria.
Provides technical assistance and training to other analysts and to those outside of the department. Communicates with others regarding systems activities within the department.

Grid Operations Systems Analyst Qualifications
Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems or relevant field of study or equivalent experience.
5 or more years of experience supporting a Control Center in daily operations of transmission generation and distribution systems or equivalent combination of utility operations and IT experience.
Professional Engineering (PE) designation a plus; IT certification a plus.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems or relevant field of study or equivalent experience.
5 or more years of experience supporting a Control Center in daily operations of transmission generation and distribution systems or equivalent combination of utility operations and IT experience.
Professional Engineering (PE) designation a plus; IT certification a plus.
Experience with Open Systems International Monarch EMS Platform or similar application suite is required.
Experience with OSI Soft PI Data Historian is preferred.
Experience with Distribution Outage Management / Distribution Management System is preferred.
Experience in computer programming, scripting and application development is preferred.
Experience in information systems security standards, practices and tools are preferred.

Through knowledge and experience in SCADA/EMS systems and EMS advanced applications.
Through understanding of the utility electrical system and substations and generation plants (Design and Operations).
Through knowledge and experience in System Administration, Backup Storage, Database Administration, Application Development, Operating Systems, Cyber Security and Networking (eg. ESX, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Cisco networking equipment, SQL Server).
Knowledge and experience in using SCADA protocols (ICCP, DNP 3.0, L&G8979).
Knowledge and understanding of telecommunication and computer networks used for SCADA and control system networks.
Advanced knowledge of systems used in department
Advanced knowledge of systems administration principles
Basic knowledge of coding and programming languages
Intermediate knowledge of laws and regulations related to department operations
Intermediate knowledge of security protocols related to grid operations
Intermediate skills in technical writing
Intermediate skills in process improvement
Working skills in project management
Working skills in reporting and analytics

Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks.
Ability to follow accuracy standards.
Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks.
Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment.
Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress.
Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change.
Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback.
Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement.
Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks.
Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization.
Demonstrates sound memory.
Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks.

Schedule/Attendance.
Ability to work long hours.
Ability to work a variable schedule.
Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather.
Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance [for part-time positions, change to part-time attendance].
Ability to work shift schedule.
Ability to work on-call schedule.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking an HR Business Analyst to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. This position will work as a Business Analyst as part of the HR Governance Quality & Analysis team to drive and define solutions to business issues across HR functional teams through utilization of HR systems and tools.

This position applies consultancy, analytical and planning skills to gather and analyze information for HR business processes, make recommendations, support a variety of HR-related initiatives and projects.

HR Business Analyst Responsibilities:
Elicit project requirements from HR business stakeholders.
Evaluate and consult with business partners on potential solution options.
Partner with technical teams to design the solutions.
Provide consulting and analysis to projects including business requirements, process design, process maps, work instructions and other associated project documentation.
Translate technical issues into business impacts to support the business decision making process.
Create and facilitate User Acceptance Testing plan and execution.
Communicate key decisions and corresponding impacts across teams to ensure integrated plans and solutions are delivered.
Work with Transition Management team to quantify and prepare for project impacts and transition.
Complete knowledge transfer to production support teams.
Ensure consistent BA practice across the HR team.
Establish and maintain relationships.
Ask questions to understand the work, identify gaps/opportunities, and challenge (when appropriate).
Influence to align cross functional teams towards solutions.

HR Business Analyst Qualifications:
Requires Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels of the organization.
Experience in HR with an understanding of upstream/downstream impacts.
Experience working within a global organization.
User Acceptance Testing experience.
Ability to work independently and influence others to meet deadlines.
Strong aptitude to understand tool functionality and utilization for gaps, solutions and operation efficiencies.
Self-starter with experience driving results.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with global, cross functional project implementations.
Detailed knowledge of HR processes (payroll, workforce administration, HR systems etc).
Experience with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management and/or other HR functions.
Ability to travel, occasionally, including internationally.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an HR Customer Service Specialist to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. They are looking for someone fluent in Spanish. As an HR Advisor, you will provide a premium customer service experience to employees in the United States, Mexico, SOCO and Canada for all HR related inquiries. Our client’s contact center operates from a variety of contact channels that include phone, email, text and live chat. As an HR Advisor, you’ll use effective written and verbal communication skills, applying sound judgment and critical thinking in serving their employees. In addition, you will utilize various systems and other support tools to ensure accurate responses to employee inquiries, while consulting and looking for opportunities to educate employees.

This is a very fast paced, employee focused environment requiring you to multitask and deliver premium service with a sense of urgency. You enjoy responding to employees’ needs with the discipline to adhere to confidentiality, policy & compliance rules. This role is part of a fun, supportive and collaborative team that operates on set schedules with various shifts. You are motivated by the challenge of continuous learning and the opportunity to develop a career in Human Resources.

HR Customer Service Specialist Qualifications:
One of the following is required:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
2-3 years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Four years’ military service in a related MOS/MOC.
Bilingual Spanish/English REQUIRED both written and verbal.
Experience in a service center environment highly desirable.
Knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures in HR a plus.

Strong verbal and written customer service skills critical, with an emphasis on soft skills, customer-focused resolution, and de-escalation.
Strong problem-solving, resolution, and decision-making skills, including the ability to quickly understand and analyze new information and situations.
Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills.
Must demonstrate initiative and the ability to work independently within a diverse team environment.
Intermediate to Advanced working knowledge of personal computers, including MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
Ability to sit or stand at a desk for long periods of time.
Ability to work flexible hours.
Experience providing customer service via multiple contact channels (phone, e-mail, live chat, face-to-face, written correspondence, text, etc.).
Knowledge and understanding of HR systems and platforms preferred (SAP, Cronos).Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

HR Generalist
The HR Generalist is expected to use a mix of education, HR Generalist and/or HR Management experience to support all areas of Human Resource functions and to help build the employee/manager relations. This position also ensures compliance and successful handling of the following areas: recruitment and selection, new hire orientation, local, multi-state, and federal compliance, job descriptions, employee classification and records, payroll and benefits, safety and workers’ compensation, and other areas as assigned. This role may also support other sites/states with various HR functions.

HR Generalist Responsibilities:
Responsible for working with management on recruiting and hiring activity including formulating policies relating to the application, interview, selection, testing and hiring process.
Coordinates and assists with reference check and verification process.
Initiates, coordinates and advises department managers and senior staff of recruitment activity, including development of new recruiting resources for selection of employees.
Works with and develops relationships with temporary staffing agencies, community, websites, local and regional employers, professional organizations and other networking groups to effectively build a pool of qualified candidates.

New Employee Orientations:
Conducts and continually improves new employee orientation program to markedly improve employee satisfaction and longevity with the company.
Ensures a thorough and complete process for new employee orientation (employment forms, benefit information, policies/procedures, facility orientation, department orientation, IT orientation and equipment orientation.).

Local, State and Federal Employment Compliance:
Possesses solid knowledge of HR about local, multi-state and federal employment laws, regulations and compliance matters.
Assists with regulatory filings and recordkeeping compliance per local, state and federally mandated requirements.
Ensures all legal postings are updated and visible.

Employee Classification & Records:
Works with staff to ensure job descriptions are current and follow company format.
Oversees and maintains all employee records in HR database and files ensuring confidentiality.
Pulls reports as requested by leadership.

Payroll and Compensation:
Works with and assists Director of HR, payroll service provider, and managers to ensure accurate and timely processing of wage garnishments, payroll deductions, bonus calculation, etc.
Oversees the local time reporting processes, works with managers and supervisors on timeclock input and reconciliation.

Safety:
Participates in the company safety and workers compensation program including meetings, issues or claims, legal postings, training and overall awareness as it pertains to safety in the workplace.
Works with the L & I retro program with third party administrator as needed.

Benefits:
Works with and assists Director of HR and multiple brokers to support and oversee the company benefit programs (medical, dental, vision, life & disability and FSA plans, FMLA, and 401 (k) plans. Includes enrollment, orientation, changes, etc.

Performance Management:
Coaches and trains senior staff and supervisors in performance-related issues such as discrimination, EEO, harassment, wage and hour violations, discipline, and termination.
Supports Director of HR and managers as needed to ensure performance review system is being utilized and goals are being met. Monitors and tracks performance evaluation process.

Leadership
Presents HR-related topics at company meetings, open enrollment meetings, etc.
Helps coordinate and plan for company events.
Supports employees and supervisors through employee-relations challenges and provides coaching for on-going successful collaborations.
Formal investigations for complaints and other issues, as needed.

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About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

VanderHouwen needs a dynamic and enthusiastic HR generalist to join our internal HR team. If you are ready to become an integral member of an exciting work group and contribute to significant company growth, please read on!

VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC-certified professional staffing firm. Founded in Portland, OR in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. At VanderHouwen, we're all about relationships. We are a family owned and operated business, and that notion of being a family extends to the entire VanderHouwen team. Our core values of being ethical, highly personal and always responsive extend to how we treat our employees. We offer generous benefits, exciting professional growth opportunities, have a strong respect for work / life balance, and are committed to helping you build an exciting and rewarding career. After all, careers are what we know best. Available benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), paid time off, and eight paid holidays.

HR Generalist Summary
HR generalist will have 3 to 5 years of HR (PHR preferred), benefits and compliance reporting experience. As an HR department team member, the generalist is responsible for internal employee and/or contractor on boarding, off boarding, benefit administration, compliance documentation and reporting.

HR Generalist Qualifications
Between 3 and 5 years HR experience required (PHR preferred).
Associate's Degree or above in related field. Related college courses and/or professional training/seminars plus applicable experience considered.
Exposure to new employee on-boarding processes, managing applicable data entry into information management systems.
Heavy data entry experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and the Internet is required.
Ability to meet tight deadlines.
High attention to detail related to employment paperwork and documentation.
Thrive in a highly-transactional, fast-paced environment: Business volume is growing by leaps and bounds so you must be able to multi-task well, meet deadlines, and handle constant change.
Dependable, outgoing, organized and a self-starter.
Take ownership and pride in your work, creatively solve problems, and apply excellent attention to detail.
Highly adaptable and able to work in a close-knit team environment.
Able to maintain a positive attitude, even during times of heavy workload.?
Able to manage a large volume of email communication via Outlook.

HR Workday Consultant
Our client’s Workday HR team is looking for staff augmentation to assist in time, absence, payroll and benefits. This position will help assist with troubleshooting issues, documenting procedures and configuration, researching solutions on Workday Community, configuration development, testing, and implementing solutions.

HR Workday Consultant Qualifications
Workday experience, preferred certification in Time, Absence, Benefits & Payroll.
Strong system configuration and business process experience.
Create, test, and document system process and rules configuration.
Able to update existing Workday rules, configurations, and business process.
Ability to jump into Hypercare and hit the ground running.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Able to work in a team and collaborate on resolutions.
Strong fit for the team.
Works onsite with the team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Human Resources Manager
Our international client has an immediate need for a Human Resources Manager to oversee HR functions for their team in Portland.

Responsibilities of the Human Resources Manager
Ensure HR compliance within organization.
Oversee human resources and payroll functions.
Review and implement improvements for team building and corporate trainings.
Assist with employee performance concerns.
Respond to employee complaints and inquiries; investigate and escalate as needed.
Benefits administration.
Oversee onboarding procedures.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Human Resources Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field.
SPHR or PHR certification a bonus.
7-10 years of HR generalist experience in a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of HR compliance and law.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
HRIS systems knowledge; ADP preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong problem-solving skills.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Human Resources Specialist
Our client is seeking a Human Resources Specialist to join their team in Palmer, AK. This position will provide General Schedule classification and job analysis support to the Human Resources Service Center for both the Recruitment & Placement and Classification & Position Management organizations. As primary support to the HR Specialists, duties include analyzing jobs to determine minimum qualifications required at entry, recommending classification of internal positions and, conducting in-depth research of complex or novel human resource issues. The work of this position will be performed offsite, with a few infrequent visits to the company’s Headquarters in Portland, OR. A valid U.S. driver’s license is required for this role.

Responsibilities of the Human Resources Specialist
Conduct job analyses on a wide variety of complex positions using research, interview, observation, and analytical techniques to gather, document, and analyze information to develop qualifications rating factors.
Utilize appropriate rating and ranking quality factors to develop crediting plans and specialized experience criteria to assess varying degrees of job qualifications. Collaborate with management and explain the methodology used.
Conduct GS position classification research and desk audits, including position description review, and evaluation statements.
Apply pre-determined GS position classification standards and recommend title, series and grade of positions for management review and approval.
Provide technical guidance and assistance to the managers and the Recruitment & Placement and Classification & Position Management staff to maintain and verify job analysis validity, position classification accuracy and consistency in interpreting and applying position classification standards and in reviewing classification issues for major program implications.
Provide advisory service to the management and staff on GS job analysis and position classification issues.
Advise management of grade distinctions, providing supporting criteria and justification; make fine distinctions both in crediting plans and specialized experience criteria as well as in the proper crediting of factor levels and ultimate allocation of grade levels to positions.
Advise the managers and HCM staff on the accepted principles and rules of judgment in analyzing complex individual position and organizational structure issues.
Provide management with insight in establishing organizational structures that are efficient, cost effective, support desired grade levels, and facilitate career development.

Research, review and/or propose responses to technical, complex and often cross-functional human resource questions, such as employment and delegations of authority issues that will require:
Review laws, regulations, guidance and OPM classification appeals and advise the staff regarding applicability
Use established processes to document practical HCM operational issues and formulate options. Present options to the staff for review and approval / acceptance.
Recommend structural, organizational and content enhancements or corrections based on research and substantive knowledge of Title V Human Resource programs and processes based on:
Research of applicable regulations and guidance to safeguard adherence
Research of applicable Department of Energy (DOE) orders and policy guidance; validate applicability
Prepare and submit status reports, as requested.

Qualifications of the Human Resources Specialist
A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Human Resource Management (or closely related field) is preferred.

With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 10+ years of experience is required.
With an applicable Associate’s degree, 12+ years of experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 14+ years of experience is required.
Experience should include work in a human resources analysis capacity, including job analysis, position evaluation, occupational classification and job description analysis.

Required Technical Skills & Experience
Expertise in laws, regulations, and practices associated with HR programs, specifically classification.
Comprehensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, processes and practices of a large and comprehensive Human resources program, including staffing, classification, position management, and human capital accountability framework.
7+ years of experience in technical and mixed series position classification (to the GS-15 grade level preferred) and Delegated/Merit Case Examining audits.
7+ years of experience preparing GS-15 and below position classification and evaluation statements.
7+ years of experience in research and interpretation of Title V, Code of regulations, OPM classification appeals decision, FLSA appeals decisions, policy and guidance associated with Human Capital.
7+ years of experience determining appropriate rating and ranking quality factors and developing crediting plans and specialized experience criteria for GS-15 and below positions.
Technical knowledge of classification evaluation writing in OPM-acceptable style.
Knowledge of automated applicant management systems.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

IAM Data Analyst
Our client is looking for a IAM Data Analyst to join their team. The Data Integrity Technician is responsible for audit and clean-up of duplicate records in the Identity Warehouse.

IAM Data Analyst Responsibilities
Focuses on identifying and merging records from a number of disparate source applications based on demographic criteria.
Corrects demographic information where necessary.
Accurately merges records in Epic from disparate source systems based on set, specific criteria.
Assures that correct patient information is updated in Epic and other downstream systems in accordance with company policies and procedures.
Analyzes daily and monthly reports for discrepancies, corrections, and modifications, and follows up with the responsible individuals when an internal merge is needed or merges the accounts themselves whenever a cross facility merge is required.
Investigates, resolves and performs follow-up tasks on Identity issues and works towards timely resolution.
Performs other special projects as required by Management.

IAM Data Analyst Qualifications
High School Diploma or GED required.
Intermediate to advanced computer proficiency required.
Previous data management and/or data entry experience required.
Some college preferred.
Ability to make sound decisions based on set, specific criteria.
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of personal computers and network applications.
Excellent organizational and communication skills.
Skills in problem solving and analysis.
Ability to proactively identify opportunities and issues, formulate recommended course of action, then persevere to achieve results.
Must meet tight deadlines and make sound judgments.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an Identity and Access Management Technician to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. As a Identity and Access Management (IAM) IT Security professional, you will be partnering with an IAM Engineer to execute enterprise termination data pulls daily, triage and disposition such termination data, and resolve any found gaps in termination status in supporting provisioning systems.

Identity and Access Management Technician Responsibilities:
Parterning with lead IAM Engineer, execute to daily process of pulling termination data, identification of termination system anomalies, and the dispositioning of such anomalies with appropriate termination actions.
Identifying anomalies and classifying them into known issues, and if not known, partnering with IAM engineer to determine failure signature.
Partnering with Governance and Compliance team leads, to ensure data collection is traceable and complete.

Preferred Certifications:
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
J2EE CertificationBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client Is seeking an Image Artist to join their dynamic team In Beaverton, OR. The Digital Product Creation Apparel Image Artist Studio community is the foundation and support of the product image creation process for our client. As an Image Artist, you will bring to life the seasonal category creative narrative through exceptional and innovative image creation. You have a hybrid skill set and passion for creative and technical work, in the Image Artist Studio you will be working to a high level of expertise and collaborating in a creative environment.
Image Artists create and maintain product images and licensed schematics. Working in partnership with the Digital Creation Lead (DCL) team to complete and maintain all of our client's imagery. Attending category & studio meetings if and when needed, maintain QC of your files and help with studio peer QC.
The Image Artist Studio is passionate about helping our cross-functional partners, supporting and challenging each other and creating amazing work.

Preferred Image Artist Qualifications:
Working knowledge of 2D Image editing within Illustrator CC.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to work independently and ability to take direction.
Strong communication skills, sound judgment and decision-making.
Independently seek information and trouble shoot. Ask questions for understanding and clarification.
Self-motivated and self-starter and drive for results.
Detail, process and results oriented; good attention to details and deadlines.
Highly organized, flexible and team-oriented.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage multiple, competing work priorities experience with graphic art, illustration, photo editing and color design.
General ability to exercise good judgment in setting priorities and follow-through to deliver on commitments.
Able to successfully manage multiple priorities against “Category Apparel Product Creation” calendar dates.
Apparel and high-volume production experience is preferred. Or experience with other types of product creation.

Preferred QC Qualifications:
Strict attention to detail and process oriented, able to catch mistakes and redirect for correction.
Comfortable working with large amounts of data, project details and imagery and provide quality control checks.
Willingness to learn new methods and systems. Ability to understand, interpret, and communicate changes to your team.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Industrial Controls Engineer
Our client has an exceptional opportunity for an Industrial Controls Engineer in Portland, OR. This high visibility and high impact position works collaboratively across the organization, supporting their efforts to offer increasingly efficient, high performance equipment that helps their customers get their job done right.
As a subject matter expert and innovator, the Automation Controls Engineer develops and delivers elegant solutions to highly complex equipment design and manufacturing technology projects at their global locations. This position is expected to continue advancing their manufacturing capabilities, capacity, quality, reliability, and safety. As a mid to senior-level engineer, this position is expected to execute controls systems projects from concept through design and programming, manufacturing start-up, and lifecycle support.

Responsibilities of the Industrial Controls Engineer
Contribute to the design and development of effective controls systems to support global manufacturing processes.
Collaborate throughout the company to develop and implement solutions that advance their manufacturing technology.
Investigate and propose applications of cutting edge technologies to new and existing manufacturing processes.
Develop elegant, robust solutions to complex systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), machine vision systems, sensors, motion control devices, robots etc.
Establish and maintain engineering standards, such as: coding practices, tag naming, network connectivity and device management, etc.
Participate in bi-directional peer design reviews.
Lead technical activities with suppliers, system integrators, and internal customers.
Contribute to quality systems using toolsets such as Lean, Design for Six Sigma, House of Quality, etc. to advance equipment designs and process improvements.
Identify opportunities for improvement in equipment and internal work processes.
Build business case to explain technical recommendations.
Lead collaborative efforts with diverse backgrounds and functional aras.
Define schedules based on projects and experience.
Coach and mentor others regarding customer service; manage communications and opportunities with customers and recommend actions.
Engage in and lead continuous improvement initiatives; act as a role model for safety, 5S, etc.
Prepare presentations to outside suppliers, system integrators, and leadership team with support from senior team members.
Maintain open communication through conversation and both formal and informal documents.

Qualifications of the Industrial Controls Engineer
BS in Controls Systems, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering required, degrees in other engineering disciplines considered with relevant industry experience.
2-8 years minimum experience.
Equipment design for an industrial, high volume production environment.
Programming ladder logic PLC’s, safety PLCs and HMIs.
Selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wiring and cabling, sensors. Hardware (PLC, HMI, safety, remote I/O, etc.) motors and drives, motion controllers etc.
Integrating vision systems, robots and other devices into a custom-designed manufacturing cell
Able to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional and quality manner.
Solve problems analytically, search out relevant information and gauge its importance when making decisions.
Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in technical and non-technical terms.
Creative thinker.
Proficiency documenting system schematics in CAD Software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).
Deep understanding of closed loop controls, instrumentation, process controls systems (PLC, HMI, SCADA, networking), panel design, safety codes and regulations (OSHA, ANSI, NEC, etc.).
Collaborative and effective team player able to work with globally dispersed teams.
Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn; seek out development activities to improve skills and increase knowledge; learn from other team members and own mistakes.
Take imitative, seek and act on opportunities to improve organization performance.
Ability to translate specific goals into action and follow through to achieve goals.
Proficiency in MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and data management software (SAP preferred).
Available for domestic and international travel 1-2 weeks per year. .About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”Senior

Our client is seeking an Infrastructure DevOps Developer to join their dynamic team in Bend, OR. This role is responsible for helping to enable the agile framework through systems for various engineering projects and initiatives while looking for ways to become more efficient by implementing various DevOps practices.

Infrastructure DevOps Developer Responsibilities:
Build and extend our software delivery pipeline supporting continuous integration and delivery for multiple teams.
Work as a dedicated DevOps resource with multiple development teams becoming the liaison between development and infrastructure.
Design, implementation and management of build, deployment configuration, and automated test toolset.
Design and maintain a release management strategy supporting an always-on 24/7 SaaS platform with a focus on performance and scalability.
Responsible for developing, documenting, and socializing DevOps processes and tools across the organization.
Develop patterns to improve the velocity and self-sufficiency of the development team.
Shared team responsibility for the up-time of the SaaS products.
Work with architects and engineers to provide automated solutions driving improved efficiency throughout the SDLC.
Drive ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools, and processes.
Responsible for troubleshooting issues with SaaS products for the teams assigned.

Infrastructure DevOps Developer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related information technology field; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Understanding of Agile methodologies.
At least five (5) years’ experience with scripting technologies such as Python (the main language we use), Ruby (a plus), and Bash (a plus).
At least three (3) years’ experience with of DevOps practices.
At least three (3) years’ experience with Windows 2012, CentOS 7 and VMWare.
Demonstrated ability to learn, implement and evangelize new technologies.
At least two (2) years’ experience automating cloud (AWS preferred) and on-premise infrastructure.
At least five (5) years’ experience troubleshooting distributed applications.
Ability to deliver innovative solutions for problems where there are no available precedents.
At least five (5) years’ experience using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
At least five (5) years’ experience supporting Java applications.
Must demonstrate strength in the following areas daily; analytical problem solving, risk identification/mitigation, sense of urgency, sense of accountability, relationship building and excellent communication skills.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an Innovation Engineer – Mobile to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As part of the Innovation team, you will be responsible for creating, developing and deploying everything from early prototypes to full blown production services and experiences designed to test the boundaries for how our client engages with consumers digitally.

Their culture is collaborative and results driven. They adopt the fail-fast operating model; measuring success through KPIs against our products and from the learnings of our failures. They operate across all areas of the business and focus on end-to-end solutions that deliver game changing impact.

Innovation Engineer – Mobile Responsibilities:
Define, design and develop some key innovation initiatives.
Responsible for working on everything from early POCs to full blown consumer facing apps and SDKs.
Lead by example, evangelize our culture, and be an advocate of new technology and development techniques.

Innovation Engineer – Mobile Qualifications:
IOS, Swift, Unit testing, REQUIRED
Passion for technology and learning, a natural curiosity, with a love for delivering real-world results in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent verbal/written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
Extensive hands on experience developing iOS applications with a strong working understanding of Swift.
Experience designing mobile applications to consume server-based REST APIs.
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests.
Commitment to and hands-on experience in performing technical code reviews.
Deeply experienced with mobile development and a team player that thrives in a collaborative agile environment.
You have a proven knowledge of software engineering fundamentals and an appetite for continuous learning and teamwork.
You are out in front of the latest technology trends and know how and when to apply them.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an Internal Communications Manager to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Communications Manager in the Global Sourcing & Manufacturing (GSM) Center of Excellence, this role will support communications for programs within the COE as well as providing communications support for the COE team. They are looking for a communications expert who can quickly integrate into the team and support innovative, compelling, succinct and consistent messages across a handful of projects, and a number of channels, to inform and educate a broad factory partner audience.

Internal Communications Manager Responsibilities:
Create and execute targeted, measurable communications stories and messaging, aligned to the communications and project strategy, to inform, educate and drive change and adoption.
Deliver high-impact, relevant, and measurable communications, using a variety of channels, on tight timelines.
Create, edit and polish communications materials – specifically PowerPoint presentations – for a broad audience across factory partners, including executives, project stakeholders and downstream.
Understand language needs to communicate messages in the best way for specific audiences (executives, end-users, ESL, etc.).
Simplify complexity and develop compelling messaging.
Integrate brand guidelines into all deliverables and help others on the project team do the same.
Build credible relationships with team members and business stakeholders.
Manage communication schedule against stakeholder and project calendars.
Autonomously manage workload and responsibilities, as part of a small Portfolio & Transition Management team.

Internal Communications Manager Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or related discipline.
4+ years corporate communications experience.
Strong writer and editor, with ability to give clear and constructive feedback.
Ability to communicate complex concepts simply and clearly.
Must be proactive within team, self-directed, willingly offer solutions and share ideas and graciously accept constructive feedback.
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
Ability to organize assignments and work independently.
Understanding of training, change management, manufacturing financial processes, or technology implementation a plus.
Experience working within a matrix organization a plus.
Understanding of graphic design principles, including web/HTML a plus.
Ability to use standard Adobe tools/programs to create presentations, print and web-based collateral; PowerPoint expertise is a must.
Attention to detail is critical.
Must be able to take action in solving issues while exhibiting mature judgment.
Strong team player.

Tools:
PowerPoint experience a must (expert-level).
Microsoft Word & Excel.
SharePoint / Box.
WordPress; knowledge of HTML/CSS a plus.
Campaign Monitor a plus.
Adobe Acrobat Pro a plus.
Adobe Creative Suite a plus.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

International Sales Manager
Our client is looking for an International Sales Manager to join their team in Portland, OR. The International Sales Manager drives revenue production and account penetration for a portfolio of named regional military and civilian agency accounts in the Asia Pacific Territory.

International Sales Manager Responsibilities
Increase revenue and gross margin for a portfolio of federal accounts within assigned territory. Owns sales process from prospecting to closure.
Establish trusted partner relationships with customers at all influence and decision making levels.
Drive the sales of selected manufactured products/services, integrated solutions.
Develop account plans and drive the strategies through tactical implementations and effective communications with Inside Sales Group and support engineering and customer service personnel and organizations.
Manage accounts and transactions across multiple Federal military and civilian agency locations and operating organizations within the territory.
Work closely with the Federal Program team to ensure effective nationwide account management, where appropriate.
Demonstrate business acumen through business case preparation, ROI analyses, cost/benefit analyses and other performance metrics.
Provide account leadership on development of responses to RFP's, RFI's and unsolicited proposals.
Proactively cultivate customer relationships to form sustainable, long-term business partnerships.
Stay abreast of developing and leading edge solutions, products and services.
Provide responsive, timely and thorough resolution of customer escalations.
Demonstrate understanding of key business drivers for customers (understand their business).
Implement strategic and consultative selling methodologies to drive revenues.
Conduct regularly scheduled territory /account reviews with Sales Management. Provide timely and accurate account status reports, forecasts, and business plans to sales leadership and operational teams as required.
Travel regularly within your region establishing a schedule of sales calls to existing and new customers.
Involvement in regional Trade Shows and other functions deemed to be in the best interest of development business within the region.
Other duties as assigned.

International Sales Manager Qualifications
5+ years successful sales and account management experience selling into Federal/DoD accounts in the Asia Pacific preferably within the US Military.
Proven track record of quota achievement.
Working knowledge of Federal contracting processes.
Working knowledge of voice, network, data, security products and solutions.
Cisco experience preferred but not required.
Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills.
Strong organizational and negotiation skills with attention to detail and quality orientation a must.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Ability to work well with the team.
Sound decision making and problem solving capabilities.
Ability to present professional image of self and Company.
Ability to handle customer inquiries and escalations professionally.
Thorough knowledge of computer and related business applications including MS Office.
Valid US Passport required.
Valid driver's license, current auto insurance and reliable vehicle as required by transportation needs of the market.
Ability to travel 50% of the time.
Must hold or be able to obtain a SECRET Clearance within six months of employment.
Must have experience with network baseband and / or SATCOM background.
Prefer tactical communication experience.
Prefer network management experience.
Must be able to learn quickly and do high level technical briefings to senior military leadership.
Must enjoy working in a competitive environment.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

IT Contract Coordinator
This position is responsible for the analysis, negotiations and administrative oversight of complex IT-related vendor contracts including core IT systems and third party related agreements for new agreements, renewals, terminations, amendments. Provides on-going maintenance of contracts to ensure compliance.

IT Contract Coordinator Responsibilities
Coordinate the development of contracts to ensure documents and associated language are developed and key stakeholder input is included. Track contracts on an on-going basis to determine if milestones are met, financial implications are addressed and responsibilities are fully outlined for all parties involved.
Proactively looks for new opportunities to improve the development of new contracts or renewal of, termination of or amendments of existing contracts for the benefit of the company. Make recommendations regarding contract language changes, contract terms and negotiation strategies.
Identify and solicit information from and provide technical assistance to key stakeholders in order to fully address system specification, risk concerns and other requirements in contracts.
Meet with vendors to clarify and assist in the negotiation of contract terms and conditions.
Provide assistance in developing success criteria during the contract negotiations in order to fully gain the benefit of the new system.
Monitor contracts for compliance regarding legal, regulatory and other contractual requirements.
Facilitates the development of contract review standards for leadership and provide education in support of compliance with these standards.
Work closely with the legal department to ensure that these standards are kept up to date and accurate according to the legal and regulatory obligations and safeguards.
Performs other duties as assigned including monthly budget reviews for SVP/CIO, annual operational budgeting and special projects.

IT Contract Coordinator Qualifications
Associate’s degree in Computer Science or related, relevant field. Equivalent experience and/or education may substitute for degree.
Experience in Information Technology in a healthcare setting required.
Experience with contract/vendor management in an IT environment is preferred.
Familiarity and experience with legal documents and contract language.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; including knowledge of communication concepts and organizational strategies, particularly as it applies to contract negotiations.
Strong organizational and analytical skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects and display flexibility in a fast paced and changing work environment.
Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
Detail oriented with demonstrated organizational and technical skills, including knowledge of hardware/software specifications.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

IT Project Manager
Our client is seeking am IT Project Manager to join their team in Tacoma, WA. The IT Project Manager is responsible for the strategic leadership and vision for Information Technology for our healthcare client. He/she oversees and assigns the daily and project work of the department, ensuring: a current and stable IT environment; the IT needs of all Divisions are met; the development of strategic department goals based on input from the Board of Directors, COO, Director of Ancillary Services, the IT staff; and the optimal use of technology throughout the practice.

The IT Project manager will work closely with the Director of Ancillary Services and IT staff to develop and maintain a proactive highly effective team through excellent communication, delegation, oversight, maintaining accountability and directing prioritization of all IT department work/projects as well as oversight of expenses including, but not limited to, license and software agreements, capital IT purchases and budget maintenance.
Work may include analyzing, procuring, implementing, supporting and maintaining various applications and/or systems; assisting users and IT staff in meeting technological needs, meeting with vendors and procuring quotes and vendor agreements.

IT Project Manager Responsibilities
Prioritizes the work of the department, delegating project work to appropriate staff and ensuring timely resolution of issues, clear communication with end users regarding resolution timelines and follow-up.
Interfaces between IT staff and end users (providers, management, staff) or vendors/facilities for unresolved and/or escalated issues.
Works closely with the Director of Ancillary Services to adjust staff schedules to accommodate daily and project work.
Ensures the stabilization and maintenance of the performance of the WAGI IT infrastructure.
Ensures Disaster Recovery planning and testing to restore business-critical functions.
Ensures the security of the IT infrastructure by implementing industry best-practices regarding privacy,
security, and regulatory compliance. Accountable for the security and integrity of the practice's data, including electronic Protected Health Information. Ensures appropriate, up-to-date security measures are in place and monitored.
Chairs the HIPAA Committee, including facilitating meetings and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including maintaining and updating the HIPAA Policies and Procedures and Security Risk Analysis on an annual basis.
Is a key participant in the management team and has primary responsibility for the development of the IT department annual and strategic goals and is accountable for their success.
Reviews, approves, and reports to senior management the status of IT and IT-involved projects.
Develops new project plans and is accountable for the development of IT Department operating and capital budgets.
Evaluates, monitors and finalizes vendor, outsourced, and consultant contracts, service and software/license agreements.
Ensures software and hardware upgrades, patches and reconfigurations are completed in a timely manner.
Monitors and approves vendor invoices and maintains IT asset tracking in accordance with adopted budgets.
Ensures development/revisions of IT policies and procedure, standard operating procedures and establishing best practices, including written protocols, KPI's and guidance to IT staff and end users.
Develops and implements an ongoing education plan for IT staff to adjust to the changes in available technologies as well as to facilitate promoting from within the department.
Keeps abreast of innovative technologies and determines what new technology solutions and implementations will meet business and system requirements.
Flexible and available to provide off-hours support as a team leader.
Other duties, as assigned.

IT Project Manager Qualifications
Bachelors’ degree in computer science or related; or combination equivalent of education and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Minimum 5 years of IT team leading/IT project managing experience including strategic planning, goal setting, budget development and evaluation/intervening in the work of others.
Deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies and Operating systems: Windows Server, AD, GPOs, Windows 10.
Experience with IT project management tools such as MS Project, SCRUM, etc.
Experience with Citrix virtual apps and desktops.
Experience with: Active Directory, Group Policy, Distributed File Services, Exchange Server 2010 and Enterprise Volume Licensing.
Experience with Microsoft Office 365 tools and applications including Sharepoint, One Drive, MS Teams, Planner and Admin 365.
Experience with backup technologies including backup cloud services.
Functional understanding of VOIP phone systems, switches, firewalls, and routers (Juniper and Cisco hardware).
Functional understanding of storage (SAN/NAS) systems.
Functional understanding of Wi-fi and wireless access points.
Knowledge and familiarity with network vendor operating systems such as JUNOS OS and Cisco IOS.
Project management certification preferred (PMI-ACP/PMP/CAPM).
ITIL training and/or Certification (ITILv2 or v3) preferred.
Oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills and active listening to both technical and non-technical users that result in excellent communication, measured by building of teams and rapor.
Support team training and documentation.
Works effectively and efficiently under pressure.
Acts responsibly, works independently, makes solid judgments, sets priorities, and manages time effectively.
Meets the organizational standards of appearance on the job.
Educated on and compliant with HIPAA requirements, best practices, and how to implement them in a Microsoft.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

About the Job
VanderHouwen is seeking a full time Technical Recruiter with a strong background in IT to add to our experienced, successful staff. VanderHouwen focuses on long-term employment for our recruiters so you must be a highly motivated, dedicated and driven individual. We operate in a fast-paced, competitive market where a goal-oriented, team approach is essential to everyone's success.

If you are an experienced Technical Recruiter, who has the determination to be part of a successful team and make $$$, please submit your resume. WE ARE SEEKING PROVEN PERFORMERS!! Base Salary and Commission (NO CAP on commissions)!!

IT Recruiter Qualifications
3+ years of IT recruiting.
Skilled in sourcing and screening resumes to identify qualified candidates along with coordinating in-house and customer interviews and negotiating pay rates.
Skilled in creative sourcing through networking organizations, internet searches, referrals, and direct recruiting.
Ability to successfully promote candidates and to support our customer base.
Experience with active involvement in candidate hiring process.
Ability to maintain a strong relationship with your placed consultants.
Strong analytical and organizational skills.
Must be goal-oriented and a team player with excellent written and oral communication skills.
Must have high integrity and put your values and reputation above all else.

What We Offer You
A highly competitive base salary.
Excellent commission/bonus plan based on personal goals.
Excellent opportunity to build a candidate base in a highly reputable firm with a solid history in the Pacific Northwest.
State-of-the-art computer systems and social media tools.
Excellent benefits including paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance and 401(k) plan.
Friendly, fun, and professional team environment.
Local candidates only please.

About VanderHouwen
Located along the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, VanderHouwen has been a premier staffing provider in the Pacific Northwest since 1987. VanderHouwen is skilled in delivering Information Technology, Engineering, and Finance placement services. We are committed to providing clients and professional staff outstanding service in a straightforward, ethical, personal, and responsive manner. Our personal approach to business and our reputation with our clients and candidates separates us from our competition.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

IT Supplier Specialist
Our client is seeking an IT Supplier Specialist to join their team in Portland, OR. The IT Supplier Specialist will have supporting responsibilities for supporting the IT Supplier Management team in performing activities in the strategic sourcing process which includes collaborating with external/internal clients to execute sourcing strategies, analyzing spend and suppliers as well as facilitating contract execution.

This position will work directly with business and technology owners to execute activities managed by the IT Supplier Management team. Effective communication, reporting and stakeholder coordination are essential delivery elements to ensure client satisfaction, team member satisfaction and financial success.

Responsibilities
Support IT Supplier Managers with one to two of the following: contract routing, asset management, invoice approvals and IT supplier operations.
Leverages contract standards and templates for use by IT
Coordinates contract reviews.
Review activity content for accuracy, standards and completion with focus on attention to details.
Report on cost savings to IT.
Follows the strategic direction set by management when establishing near term goals.
Acts independently to execute according to methods and procedures on new assignments.
Facilitates proactive renewal management and negotiations.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Knowledge of IT Procurement Strategy, Processes and Tools.
Exposure to IT contract and sourcing.
Proficient in the use of MS SharePoint, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Experience in process improvement
Knowledge of legal terminology and language related to supplier agreements.
Effective project management skills.
Flexibility and adaptability to effectively adapt to new scenarios and changes.
Promote corporate objectives and change initiatives, ensuring that the IT team is supporting overall company direction and growth.
Support IT resources on stakeholder and project management, with a special emphasis on collaboration, customer focus, delivery excellence, continuous improvement, negotiations and contracting.
Support Software and Hardware Asset Management compliance.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Item File Coordinator
The Item File Coordinator works to automate purchases and streamline purchasing processes. This position coordinates and provides strategic and functional direction in the development and implementation of the Oracle Item File through effective management of data in complex purchasing information systems. This role will use strong procurement skills, best practices, and market intelligence to work collaboratively with Logistics, systems staff, stakeholders, consultants, and customers to drive long-term systems solutions and standardization by actively participating in the development of operating policies and programs affecting the item file. This role provides systems direction, identifies long range objectives, and coordinates cross-functional efforts to provide cost effective quality products and services to patients, academic, research and healthcare professionals. The Item File Coordinator directs systems activities with significant consequences, impacting purchasing for the entire organization.

Responsibilities of the Item File Coordinator
Directs item file development and implementation and provides strategic long-term systems vision.
Coordinates cross functional employees and consultants engaged in item file systems and process development.
Provides support for the operation and maintenance of existing computer systems and/or clinical/operational workflows relating to the use and optimization of the electronic medical patient billing records.
Documents item file vision and development.
Makes systems recommendations to Logistics management.
Leads meetings with key stakeholders to facilitate communication and cross-functional consensus.
Acts as a liaison between Logistics, Purchasing and company end user departments regarding the Item File.
Manages item file related projects.
Provides strategic and functional program direction through the coordination of staff engaged in program activities.
Identifies long range objectives, short term operational goals and develops operating plans based on in depth knowledge of program regulations and requirements by documenting project plans, time lines, constraints, and progress.
Communicates project objectives and progress to customers and stakeholders.
Organizes and leads project meetings.
Coordinates with related departments, projects and resources.
Oversees ongoing maintenance of item file structure and content.
Coordinates item file tasks and assignments with various teams across the organization to resolve standardized product related purchasing and supply issues.
Assists in the coordination of product conversions and contract implementation.
Performs product and cost comparison analyses.
Develops, maintains, and monitors reports for tracking inventory, product usage, cost and purchase ordering process.
Screens and processes new item request that fall outside of the normal standardization process.
Answers customer questions regarding proper item file use, standardization and product conversions.
Drafts and enforces policies and procedures related to item file use.
Uses reports to ensure item file data accuracy and assess progress in converting manual orders to automated processes.
Identifies, leads and participates in process improvement efforts in support of the Logistics mission.
Contributes to Logistics strategic planning activities and documentation.
Participates in systems testing activities.
Troubleshoots item file systems problems.
Coordinates temporary resources brought on to assist with process improvement efforts.
Serves as a positive agent of change.
Other duties as assigned.

Item File Coordinator Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, or a closely related field, and/or 3 more years of relevant experience.
2 years of experience with responsibility for systems, program or project monitoring and coordination.
Experience must have included process improvement, project management and evaluation responsibility.
Database development and maintenance skills.
Knowledge of GAAP, basic purchasing, and inventory.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge, with experience leading Oracle or other large ERP systems implementations.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Java Back-end Developer
Our Consulting client will be hiring a Java Back-end Developer with Java8 experience to join their team of Software Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to develop and grow systems that reach millions of consumers.

Their Engineers don't just code, they know WHY they use one tool over another.

This is a values-based, family company, with leadership committed to empowering employees and providing an excellent work/life balance. People who thrive here want to learn the breadth and depth of technologies working on various projects.

As part of this team, you will be involved in designing and building services in a continuous delivery model on a AWS cloud platform.

This role will also partner with leads and architects to help establish a technical vision and deliver innovative services which are consistent, maintainable, and highly scalable for various commerce experiences.

Java Back-end Developer Responsibilities
Work in a distributed/cloud-based environment (AWS preferred) with high transaction volumes.
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and architecture patterns.
Ability to define solutions, provide estimates on effort and risk, and evaluate technical feasibility.
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests.
Practice full DevOps ensuring a culture of testing and releasing software on AWS continuously using automation and monitoring.
Leverage NoSQL using AWS DynamoDB to ensure data storage is designed for security, reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance.
Deliver software in a Scrum development process.
Partner with other teams to ensure the service ecosystem is loosely coupled and scalable.

Preferred
Knowledgeable with version control systems (Git) and issue tracking tools (JIRA).
Experience with CD/CI and related tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.).
A track record of solving problems and getting things done in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
Ability to work in a collaborative environment that rewards experiments, initiative, curiosity, and mentoring.
eCommerce experience preferred.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Java Developer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. As a Senior Software Engineer in Marketplace Platforms, you will join a team of engineers, scrum masters, as well as product owners to envision and deliver robust applications plus services that bring their omnichannel solutions to the next level. This role will be involved in designing plus building secure, highly scalable and innovative services in a continuous delivery model on their cloud platform. The Senior Software Engineer will also partner with leads and architects to establish a technical vision for the company's various commerce experiences.
The successful candidate is a proven software engineer with excellent communication and current hands-on coding skills. Focus areas will include inventory, order and fulfillment domains.

Java Developer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
An equivalent combination of education and professional experience in lieu of a degree
eCommerce experience preferred
5+ years’ experience in microservice architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful API’s using Java 8+
Hands-on experience working in a distributed/cloud-based environment (AWS preferred) with high transaction volumes
Experience with dependency injection, Spring Boot and object-relational mapping tools such as Hibernate
Ability to define solutions, provide estimates of effort and risk, and evaluate the technical feasibility
Experience with DevOps, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests
Able to leverage NoSQL data stores (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB etc.) to ensure data storage is designed for security, reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance
Working knowledge of Scrum and agile principles
Energetic Self-starter who can work in a complex collaborative environment that rewards experiments, initiative, curiosity and mentoring
Knowledge of version control systems (GIT), issue tracking tools (Jira), and CI/CD-related tools (Jenkins, TeamCity etc.)
Commitment to and experience in pair programming and performing technical code reviews
Partner with other teams to ensure the service ecosystem is loosely coupled and scalable
Strong team player and communicator capable of building positive relationships across engineering, product, and architectureBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Java Developer Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred or 2 years of additional experience in lieu of a degree.
2+ years using Enterprise Java in highly distributed systems with high transaction volume.
Experience in Object Oriented analysis, design and patterns.
Experience with Service Oriented Architecture principals and REST.
Experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred: EC2, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS).
Experience with dependency injection and object relational mapping tools such as Spring Boot/Spring and Hibernate.
Experience with load testing tools.
Experience with and passionate about Test Driven Development.
Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
Experience delivering software using an agile development process (Scrum preferred).
Experience with leading projects in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary development teams.
Demonstrated effective communication within a team and as part of a cross-functional organization.
Experience with Serverless Computing/Lambda technologies a plus.
Experience with 3D technologies a plus.
til further notice.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Java Developer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Java Developer Qualifications:
Experience developing applications to run in a large-scale environment.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Java.
Experience designing REST APIs and developing RESTful Web Services.
Experience with developing automated unit tests and managing and executing unit tests using tools such as JUnit.
Experience developing Object Oriented, multi-tier applications in a complex architectural landscape.
Experience developing in a continuous integration environment using Jenkins.
Experience writing automated unit and integration tests using JUnit or TestNG testing frameworks.
Able to maintain the build and deployment process through use of build integration tools.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Experience developing ecommerce based web applications.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience using and scaling NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, Mongo or Couchbase.
Experience with ETL data processing using EMR, SPARK, Snowflake/SQL database.
Experience designing and developing on horizontally and highly scalable cloud-based architecture. AWS cloud infrastructure experience strongly preferred.
Experience developing in a TDD environment or a strong desire to learn.
Experience in a Blue/Green deployment model.
Experience in a Continuous Delivery (CD) environment.
Experience designing and implementing performance tests.
Experience designing instrumentation into code and using and integrating with software & logging analysis tools such as New Relic & Splunk.
Experience with Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, etc).Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Java Developer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Java Developer Qualifications:
Experience developing applications to run in a large-scale environment.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Java.
Experience designing REST APIs and developing RESTful Web Services.
Experience building scalable services in AWS.
Experience with developing automated unit tests and managing and executing unit tests using tools such as TestNG or JUnit.
Experience developing Object Oriented, multi-tier applications in a complex architectural landscape.
Experience developing in a continuous integration environment using Jenkins, or TeamCity CI frameworks.
Experience writing automated unit and integration tests using JUnit or TestNG testing frameworks.
Able to maintain the build and deployment process through use of build integration tools.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Experience developing ecommerce-based web applications.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience using and scaling NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, Mongo or Couchbase.
Experience developing in a TDD environment or a strong desire to learn.
Experience in a Blue/Green deployment model.
Experience in a Continuous Delivery (CD) environment.
Experience designing and implementing performance tests.
Experience designing instrumentation into code and using and integrating with software & logging analysis tools such as New Relic & Splunk.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Java Engineer
Our client is seeking a Java Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. This is an incredible opportunity for a Senior Engineer who will work closely with software development and business teams building products and services.

Responsibilities of the Java Engineer
Deliver results. Collaborate with those around you to produce lean, pragmatic solutions in a predictable and transparent way.
Using modern tools and techniques with lightweight agile process, you will join a team of engineers writing, reviewing and shipping high-impact solutions for customers.
Be a Strong backend engineer, but also learn the industry and earn your Ph.D. in products, tools, and software stack.
Discover and define business and technical requirements for new features and products.
Embody the company values and work to positively impact those around you.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
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Java Engineer Responsibilities
Works with project managers, team members, and business analysts to define requirements for applications targeted for the corporate internet/intranet.
Designs web interfaces and processes to incorporate data from backend systems.
Creates and unit tests code using Java EE.
Documents designs, code and data flows.
Maintains and enhances internet/intranet applications. Provides technical support to application administrators.
Resolves problems with vendor technical support.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Java Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor degree or equivalent specializing in Computer Science, Math, and/or Engineering.
Solid understanding of web technologies and programming languages.
3+ years professional computer programming experience in Java EE.
Experience with Web Services, JSF, Spring, Struts, and Hibernate is desirable.
Solid background in client/server programming and relational database systems.
Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational, and detail orientation skills.
Keep abreast of current and emerging Internet and development technologies.
Work well under pressure with frequent interruptions and shifting priorities.
Maintain confidentiality and project a professional business image.
Ability to be on call.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Java/Scala Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Java/Scala Engineer Responsibilities:
Design and build micro-services in Java and Scala to be part of our client’s Retail platform.
Design and build highly-available and highly-performant NoSQL persistence layers leveraging DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
Review and give feedback on technical designs, code and tests to ensure best practices and being followed.
Harness DevOps skills to improve unifying software development, operations and stability.
Profile and performance tune to enhance the platform and provide visibility into system limits and scaling needs.
Establishing and maintain collaborative partnerships with architects and other teams to provide and receive insight into solution and implementation approaches.
Test through automation to ensure code and functional quality of the platform.

Java/Scala Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relevant fields.
Minimum of 5 years of directly relevant work experience as a software engineer.
Minimum of 3 years of experience building scalable, highly available, distributed Java RESTful APIs.
Minimum of 1 year of experience building scalable, highly available, distributed Scala RESTful APIs.
Experience writing automated tests using JUnit, ScalaTest, Cucumber, Spock and Specs.
Experience using Functional Reactive Programming.
Experience with the Akka libraries, HTTP is a must.
Experience with applications hosted in Amazon Web Services.
Experience using Amazon Web Services: CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR, ElasticCache and Elasticsearch.
Excellent collaboration, analysis, written and oral communication skills.
Strong working knowledge of basic computer science data structures and algorithms, NoSQL databases, Inversion of Control (IoC) and other common patterns and practices gained with experience in the above requirements.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a JavaScript / Lightning Developer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on the company’s computer and telephony technology tools used to create, store, exchange, and use all forms of information.

JavaScript / Lightning Developer Responsibilities:
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives.
Manages employees, sets goals, coach's staff, supports development, collaborates on hiring decisions, disciplinary actions, performance management, and recognition, and rewards.
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources.
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process.
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation.
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. process.
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation.
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects.
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager.
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met.
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments.
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation.
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design.
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs.
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews technical designs.
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results.
Enforce department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department.
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards.
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results.
Expert in delivering scalable, programmatic, secure solutions using Apex, Javascript (Lightning Framework), and Visualforce, as well as fundamental web development using HTML, and CSS. Knows platform governor limits and developing in a multi-tenant environment, understands 3rdparty API integrations and opening up the platform for 3rdparty communication.
Able to test both Apex and Lightning solutions with positive and negative assertions and custom error (exception) handling. Understands version control systems and how to collaborate using Git, Bitbucket, and Jira.

JavaScript / Lightning Developer Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 years; Masters + 4 years; Associates degree + 6 years; High School + 7 years.
Must understand how to instantiate and update Scratch Orgs with a fundamental knowledge of base metadata, using programmatic and declarative deployment processes.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Junior C/C++ Software Engineer
Our manufacturing client will be hiring for a Junior C/C++ Software Engineer to join their Software Development team. The right candidate will have the opportunity to see their software in operation – on site, in the field in a full production environment.

Life cycle: we sell a machine, the Design Engineer/Project Manager scopes the project, we build the system, add software, this role takes ownership over the machine, tests, customizes code, accompany the machine you created out into the field, start it up, train operators/users). Travel throughout the US/Canada/Australia, one week per month expectation.

One aspect of their product is reporting, they added a SQL database to deal with management reporting. They have a robot (industrial control system), it processes high volume of data, tracks downtime, and provides statistics of production capabilities of a machine. The data goes in a SQL database. They will observe how much down time there is in a certain month per shift/per operator/etc. They’ve got several machine builders, and need more SW Engineers.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Junior Controls Engineer
Our client is looking for a Junior Controls Engineer to join their Software Engineering Team. The primary focus is to assist in engineering and developing Industrial PLC control systems. The client specializes in creating controls systems for new and existing machines within the saw mill industry.

The controls engineer will assist in project conceptual designs, detail engineering, procurement, construction, and pre-operational testing as well as commissioning and onsite start up. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package, room for advancement, and the stability of working for a well-respected organization.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Junior PHP Developer
Our client is a dynamically growing Portland-based company with global ambitions. They will be hiring a creative PHP Developer to join their growing Dev Team. You will be a part of a creative team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development, from the initial specification, through to developing, testing, and launching. This position will report to the CEO.

Their products are directly intertwined with the salvage auto industry, which is a unique world of its own! They hope to find someone willing to pick up the reigns and refine the customer experience across various outlets -- with some creativity thrown in along the way.

***Does this position speak to what you're passionate about? Tell us about it! In a few sentences, let us know why you feel this could be a perfect match!***

Junior PHP Developer Qualifications
2+ years of PHP (5/6+) development experience.
Experience with Symfony framework.
Front end experience with Angular 2.
Preferred:
Strong object oriented programming skills.
Experience and understanding of REST API development and concepts.
Experience working in CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, SemanticUI).
Understanding of responsive design and development best practices.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Junior Planning Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on the effective and efficient distribution of products and services to customers.

Junior Planning Analyst Qualifications:
Experience in the Supply Chain and/or in a retail/wholesale buying capacity.
Experience with Supply Chain processes, Inventory/Demand planning and control processes.
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 0-1 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 year; Masters + 0-3 years; Associates degree + 1-3 years; High School + 3-5 years. Subject area: Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance or related fieldBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Junior UI Designer
Our client is seeking a Jr. UI Designer to join their team in Portland, OR. The User Interface (UI) Designer is instrumental in devising innovative and well-crafted design solutions in a digital and interactive environment. The UI Designer has a knack for bringing function and design together to create a well-crafted, beautiful experience. Working with a team of experts on any given project, the UI Designer is responsible for bringing life through interactive, conceptual media.
The UI Design team works on a variety of projects from high-level, long-term conceptual work to quick-turn digital update projects. As active members of the Creative Studio, they bring inspiration and brilliance to every project and deliver their best work every time. This team consists of a tightly knit group of individuals with strong communication skills and the ability to think beyond the obvious. Always willing to roll up his/her sleeves and get to work, the UI Designer thinks strategically in support of usability best practices and cross-pollinates with colleagues to deliver elevated experiences that challenge the status quo.
This team works closely with colleagues in other departments—from developers to designers to our UX team—and is expected to deliver projects that are strategically built and beautifully implemented across digital platforms.

Responsibilities of the Junior UI Designer
Maintains proficiency in current tools and practices, while investigating new methods.
Works cross-functionally with stakeholders, analysts, producers, developers, etc. to broker differences in a fast-paced environment, adapting quickly and effectively with regard to changing requirements.
Thinks both tactically and strategically, and has high levels of self-direction, innovation, and imagination.
Provides design support for other design staff, manages assigned projects between UX, UI, and development for integrated brand experiences.
Collaborates with all internal departments to create enticing and innovative collateral.
Develops, implements and communicates consistent style across print, digital and environmental design.
Presents designs and concepts that accurately address marketing objectives.
Maintains brand and design standards with a partnership in the creative studio for digital application.
Maintains a close relationship with engineering partners, understands the technical limitations and opportunities for development and design in any given project.
Maintains a talent for consistently delivering strong creative concepts that meet specific goals as defined by the creative team and other stakeholders.
Works on small-scale projects with a review from a senior level, also support senior staff on larger, complex projects.

Qualifications of the Junior UI Designer
Bachelor’s degree in UI, graphic design or related field and 1–2 years of experience in design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong focus on designing for interactive environments. Strong focus on graphic design in digital media with emphasis on illustration, typography, layout, and design for interactive environments and passionate about well-crafted experiences that augment and compliment the product’s function.
Knowledgeable and savvy of current best practices in UI/UX and design.
Strong portfolio demonstrating UI and digital design best practices.
Excellent people skills and flexibility in dealing with changing schedules and multiple points of view. Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills. Ability to articulate design choices and present work to key stakeholders.
Demonstrated general understanding of how design impacts development; a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible and prudent
Ability to think both tactically and strategically, including high levels of self-direction, innovation, and imagination.
Has a keen eye for details and strong proofing skills to ensure digital and print communications follow corporate brand standards.
Front-end development knowledge including HTML/CSS and responsive frameworks a plus. Basic UX skills and understanding a plus.
Able to work with a team of designers to successfully translate concepts into insightful, compelling communications and content that drive awareness, understanding, engagement, and action—on the brand.
Able to implement and support senior staff and creative studio, and the greater strategy of the team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Lead .Net Software Engineer to join their dynamic team in Portland, OR. The Lead Developer will mentor, guide and coach the team in developing mission-critical applications integral to the growing company. In this hands-on technical role, this person will create key application functionality utilizing the .Net Framework, SQL Server, Angular and AWS. Development of effective cross-functional relationships and collaboration in an Agile Scrum environment will be key to improving the capabilities and maturity of the platform.

This role will be pivotal in the continuing transformation of our client’s IT Organization and processes and build up their in-house .Net Engineering muscle.

Lead .Net Software Engineer Responsibilities:
Implement business requirements using object-oriented design and development strategies and patterns.
Support and serve as a technical expert for enterprise applications in all stages of development, testing, and production.
Ability to lead end-to-end implementations.
Converting monolith applications to a microservices architecture.
Effectively troubleshoot application bugs and analyze applications for potential failures.
Create and maintain application support documentation (formal design and architecture documents, code comments) as required.
Partner with Project Management, Business Systems Analyst and Product Management teams in analysis of business needs to decide the best course of action
Code review for development of team members.
Analyze data requirements and develop data models.
Set standards to ensure proper design, coding, and unit testing practices are implemented and followed.
Design and develop Restful web services and enhance existing web services with web API
Writing automated unit test and integration tests using nUnit and mocking

Lead .Net Software Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelor or Master of Science Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
Knowledge of the .NET framework, Entity, and Unity.
Experience with SQL Server and data access methods.
Experience with custom development including 7 years of .NET (with C# or VB), ASP.NET and 5 years of C# .Net.
Experience developing with MS SQL stored procedures and queries.
Coding experience with .Net 2.0, 4.0 and 4.5 frameworks.
Experience with AngularJS, Angular or other JavaScript frameworks.
Experience with CSS 3.0, HTML 5.0 and jQuery.
Good knowledge of software design principles – OOD, TDD, and GoF Patterns – including experience with software development methodologies (e.g Agile).
Experience with lifecycle development and architecture of enterprise level applications with relational or XML based storage solutions.
Experience interfacing in a cross-functional role.
Microsoft Certified Professional certification preferred.
Experience developing and deploying applications using Windows and AWS or Azure preferred.
Oracle database and/or applications integration experience preferred.
Must be able to work for any US company (both now and in the future) without sponsorship.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Lead DevOps Engineer
Our client is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join their team of high-performing engineers in Portland, OR! This role will be coordinating between stakeholders and other members of the DevOps team to be more of the customer facing person in this group. You will need to be a DevOps expert that’s solutions oriented but with strong communication skills.

Technical Requirements
AWS & GCP.
Background in continuous deployment.
Python is critical for this role, some Node experience desired.
Kubernetes experience.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Lead Software Engineer
Our client is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. Providing technical leadership and inspiration, you'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits as a backend engineer. Our client has come a long way in replacing first-generation services with a scalable, pipelined microservice architecture, but the journey is just beginning. This means smarter, more scalable and recoverable messaging and faster, simpler operational databases. Derived data streams feeding a machine learning platform that will let us outperform the competition in evaluating risk (and opportunity). Realtime data consolidation using pub-sub techniques that obsolete legacy data stores and the complex, unmaintainable queries that go with them.

Responsibilities of the Lead Software Engineer
Collaborate with those around you to produce lean, pragmatic solutions in a predictable and transparent way.
Using modern tools and techniques with lightweight agile process, you will join a team of engineers writing, reviewing and shipping high-impact solutions for customers.
Become an expert. You'll be a strong backend engineer, but also learn the industry and earn your Ph.D. in products, tools, and software stack.
Discover and define business and technical requirements for new features and products.
Embody the company values and work to positively impact those around you.

Qualifications of the Lead Software Engineer
10+ years of experience in software engineering.
Experience mentoring and coaching other developers.
Deep expertise in at least one modern language (Java, C#, C++).
Ability to learn new things (languages, tools, frameworks) very quickly.
Expertise working with databases (SQL and/or noSQL).
Proficient using version control systems.
Proficient with software test and automation tools.
Readiness to travel occasionally.
You have extensive experience developing software products and services across a variety of tools, frameworks, and environments. You recognize your strengths and also know when to reach out for help
You have a genuine passion for solving interesting technology problems with creative and simple solutions.
You'd rather deliver a 40% solution in 2 weeks than an 80% solution in six.
You're excited to work with fellow engineers, but also know how to partner across departments to get things done.
You're looking to do amazing work.
You're all about using technology to improve the customer experience and affect the company's bottom line, but also want to mentor and coach those within your team.
Proficient in Java preferred.
Experience with noSQL databases preferred.
Proficient in Git and automated build/deploy environments preferred.
Experience with service-oriented architectures preferred.
Familiarity with functional programming preferred.
Financial services background preferred.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Lead Software Engineer
The Software Development Team Lead is responsible for the architecture and technical direction of a software project. In this job, you will also be responsible for the growth and mentoring of other software engineers. You will work closely with product management to understand business needs and guide projects from conception through implementation.

Lead Software Engineer Responsibilities
Work across the stack to from UI to database.
Leverage AWS to deliver efficient, cloud-native solutions.
Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same.
Document software designs and project tasks.
Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring and direction to other team members.
Design and develop REST APIs and other code that is reliable, maintainable, and extendable.
Translate business needs and requirements into technical specifications.
Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design.
Guide engineering teams in adoption of architectural standards.
Assist in the preparation of project plans and product roadmaps.
Lead and participate in design/code reviews.
Experience with Scrum/Agile SDLC.
Interview and provide technical assessments of employment candidates.

Lead Software Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
6+ years experience in software development.
2+ years team lead / management experience.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Learning and Development Program Manager to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As the Learning and Development Program Manager for several functions in our Global Operations Team, you will be responsible for helping to shape and manage our employee and manager development programs.

Learning and Development Program Manager Responsibilities:
Build out the framework for World class People Development program, with focus on building local Asian leaders.
Develop the Career Suite, designing and coordinating Career Day events in sync with the existing online tools & resources.
Curate the tools and experiences to support the People & Career Development programs.
Partner with HRBPs and the Talent Development team on specific activation plans and needs.
Ensure maximum leverage of center-led resources & experiences, customizing or adding only when needed based on location or to close capability gaps.
Help lead & direct the next phase of Manager Connect experiences.
This work will require you to simultaneously manage and design programs at various stages of maturity, while identifying and addressing opportunities for alignment across existing & planned development programs to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
You will work closely with the GOT Talent Development and Talent Management Directors and other leaders and partners across HR and GOT functions.

Learning and Development Program ManagerQualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience or PhD or Law + 3 years; Masters + 4 years; Associates degree + 7 years; High School + 8 years
Appreciation for sport and athletes at every level.
Commitment to our client’s core values.
Excellent communications and interpersonal skills (written and in-person).
Healthy sense of humor and adventure.
Work both independently and with a team.
Seek and apply feedback from diverse sources to improve personal performance and project results.
Give feedback to improve performance of others and project results.
Thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while taking steps to ensure you get the rest and recovery needed to perform at your best.
Be resilient, resourceful and proactive during shifts in timelines, objectives and partners.

Demonstrated success in/with:
End-to-end design, implementation and support of organization-wide development programs.
Updating and enhancing existing programs with measurable, positive results.
Understanding and serving the unique needs of diverse consumer groups.
Quickly building collaborative partnerships with others.
Managing multiple, sometimes overlapping, workstreams, deliverables and timelines.
Working with global teams and creating global programs especially in Asia.
Working with external vendors.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Logistics Analyst
As an Logistics Analyst, you will be responsible for ensuring that inbound shipments through our client’s network of inbound 3PLs are made available and delivered within Delivery Precision On-Time guidelines. You will also ensure that system data is updated and reflects the most current tracking information available and call out late orders and Delivery issues. You’ll be responsible for running reports and analyzing data Amber Road ILM VIZ, as well as 3PL reports. You will work with Sales, Market Place Operations, Inventory Management, Category Business Units, DC operations and DRS customers to pro-actively plan the delivery of key seasonal initiatives throughout the business cycle. You’ll provide weekly metrics updates to the Logistics Manager and be able to effectively articulate and communicate the status of orders moving through the 3PLs.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k. About VanderHouwen VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career. VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Loss Prevention Content Creator to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As Content Creator for the North America Digital Loss Prevention Team, you’ll partner with leaders and subject matter experts to deliver and manage content that informs stakeholders and drives decisions.

In this role, you will be working with leaders to design, develop and publish presentations and informative documentation that aligns with the department’s business priorities and regular cadence of updates.

You will work closely with our data team to provide actionable storytelling that educates and informs the audience.

Loss Prevention Content Creator Responsibilities:
Own and evolve the Digital Loss Prevention content and knowledge management strategy.
Lead the work to publish and manage content across an internal digital ecosystem.
Manage delivery of insights to subject matter experts and/or content creators.
Orchestrate and maintain a cadence of content audits to drive accuracy and effectiveness.
Represent the Global Content Team in partnering with HR leadership to drive content quality.
Partner cross functionally to deliver value to employees and the business.

$23-24/hour W2Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Manager of Software Development
Our client is seeking a Manager of Software Development to join their team in Portland, OR. The Manager of Software Development will develop and deliver systems and applications. You will lead the development, delivery, and support sections of the product or process, partnering with the product owners to establish the feature priorities and roadmap to help meet the team’s business objectives. This role manages software development teams and is generally responsible for the outcome of the work of one or two functional teams.

Qualifications of the Manager of Software Development
Good experience in software development.
Has performed that functional skill at a very high level and can mentor others on software development best practices.
Has the ability to develop and lead a team including hiring, goal setting, coaching and development.
Can drive performance of individual contributors and deal with performance problems.
Understands and performs the recruiting and interview process as well as formal performance evaluation.
Has thorough knowledge of general principles of project management and software development lifecycles.
Good experience in software development methodologies and theory.
Experience evaluating performance using Big O notation and can mentor other to do the same.
Expert in OO software designs and pattern usage and the gang of four.
Has implemented and run agile software development teams.
Knows how to create the most efficient and motivated software teams.
Deep understanding of SOA design and Web services.

Additional Minimum Requirements for level II
Has deep experience in software development.
Has performed software development at a very high level and can mentor others on software engineering best practices.
Has demonstrated success developing and leading a team including hiring, goal setting, coaching and development.
Demonstrated ability to drive performance in multiple teams, hire the individual contributors and leaders and deal with performance problems.
Ability to define team needs and team staffing strategies.
Skilled in and can mentor others developing staff and teams and doing formal performance evaluations.
Has thorough knowledge of general principles of project management and software development lifecycles.
The SW Development Manager I would have a relevant Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in the related field including 1 year leadership responsibilities or equivalent combination of education and job-related experience may be substituted.
The Software Manager II would have a relevant Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience in the related field including at least 3 years of management experience or equivalent combination of education and job-related experience may be substituted.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Materials Control Specialist
The Materials Control Specialist to work collaboratively with others, performing various Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Warehouse processes. The ideal candidate possesses strong multi-tasking skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, and experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with limited supervision.

Materials Control Specialist Responsibilities
Perform GMP Warehouse processes according to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), including receiving, labeling, stocking, issuing and shipping of materials and supplies.
Assist with preparation of Purchase Requisitions and inventory control stocking and storage decisions.
Measure chemicals into containers.
Perform complete accurate labeling and GMP documentation.
Clean and maintain areas and equipment regularly.
Comply with GMPs and other applicable state and federal regulations.

Materials Control Specialist Qualifications
Ability to complete HAZMAT training, a requirement of performing portions of the work.
Ability to operate hand truck, lift trucks and other equipment.
Ability to communicate clearly and interact constructively with peers.
Basic Computer literacy and ability to perform accurate transactions.
Basic mathematical skills.
Ability to lift up to 40 pounds, with or without assistance of tandem lift or other materials handling equipment.
Ability to work in confined spaces, as well as refrigerated environments
Ability to gown for a clean room unassisted.
Good attention to detail with strong organizational skills.
High School diploma required.
Two years+ experience handling and transacting lot-controlled inventory (preferably in a GMP environment).
WSDL required.
APICS, NAPM, or CLM certification or equivalent training is highly desirable.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Materials Handler
Our client is looking for a Materials Handler to join their team in Beaverton, OR.

Materials Handler Qualifications
Experience in distribution warehouse and inventory control.
Mature, with strong work ethic.
Excellent attention to details and deadlines.
Ability to lift 50-pound boxes and rolls of fabric.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Work well in team environment - supportive of co-workers.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access & Outlook.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

MEAN Stack Developer
Our client is seeking a MEAN Stack Developer to join their team in Portland, OR. They are a leading provider of consulting services to utilities, government agencies and the private sector in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable and distributed energy, sustainability, utility planning and forecasting, and other professional services. This role will troubleshoot and update an existing web product with a new set of data.

Responsibilities
Review current website and troubleshoot existing code.
Help internal analysts generate and format JSON and CSV data for populating MongoDB (using R and SQL, plus some Linux GIS tools).
Upload data to server, test site with new data and modified JS code, and help deploy to production server.

Qualifications
MongoDB
Express.js
Angular.js
Node.js

Preferred
R
GIS (Leaflet.js, Geojson, mapshaper)
SQL
Git
Azure

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Qualifications of the Mechanical / Process Design Engineer
Mechanical Engineer with 5+ years of experience with PE stamp
Revit
PipeFlo (or similar)
Pipe Stress analysis (AutoPipe or CEASAR II)
AutoPipe
CAESASR II
AutoCAD
BIM360
Navisworks
MS Office SuiteBenefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Mechanical Design Engineer
Our client is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. A Mechanical Design Engineer is sought to join an ambitious, well-funded interdisciplinary research group based in New York City. This hire will work on the mechanical design and construction of new generations of our custom-built supercomputer, collaborating with our team on all phases of system development, from concept to delivery.

Qualifications
Expertise in sheet metal and machined part design, including hands-on prototyping and testing of chassis and enclosures.
Modeling and drafting in SolidWorks and/or PTC Creo (Pro/Engineer).
They should have a demonstrated ability to design complex, rack-based electronic packaging systems with integrated power and cooling.
Plastics design and injection molding.
Creating assembly drawings, and resolution of DFM/DFA issues.
Excellent analytical and communication skills are required.
BS in mechanical engineering.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Mechanical Design Engineer
Our client has an immediate opening for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join their growing company that designs the equipment used to make Craft Beer, Craft spirits, Fine wine and a number of other food and fruit equipment! Come join a fun team located in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge area!

Responsibilities
Modify and customize current designs.
Design tanks and equipment for specific purposes.
Evaluate designs for adequate strength and manufacturability.
Source and buy materials and components.
Interface with customers for site specific designs.
Coordinate production activities in the shop and in the field.

Qualifications
BSME or equivalent.
Familiarity with materials used in the beverage and food processing industries is a plus.
Working knowledge of fabrication equipment and techniques is a plus.
Must be technically sharp and innovative.
Able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
Must be proficient with SolidWorks or AutoCAD 2d.
Must be detail-oriented and accurate.
Prefers someone with interest in the beverages producing industry.
Leadership abilities or previous supervisory experience are a huge plus for this role.
Must be experienced with MS Excel and Access.
Experience with FEA software is preferred.
Experience in the brewing, wine making, or distilling industry is a huge plus, however is not required.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Mechanical Engineer
Our client is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join their team in Hood River, OR. A successful candidate would need to be able to provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions would need to be imaginative, thorough, practicable and consistent with organization objectives. This implies a complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in mechanical engineering. The Mechanical Engineer will works under the direction of the lead mechanical engineer. They will contribute to determining and developing approaches to solutions.

Qualifications
2-4 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or 0-3 years in an engineering classification with a Master's degree.
Experience with computer aided tools including both solid modeling and drafting packages is required. Experience with Solidworks is strongly desired.
Experience using FEA modeling tools is desired.
Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials science, and prototyping techniques is strongly desired.
Ability to apply mechanical engineering theories to practical designs is required.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
Knowledge of polymers and composite materials is desired.
Knowledge of design and drafting methods including geometric dimensioning & tolerance is strongly desired.
Knowledge of engineering tests techniques, methods, equipment and instrumentation is strongly desired.
Knowledge of domestic and international regulations (e.g. FAA or DOD regulations) on the certification of test articles/vehicles to assure compliance of design is desired.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Mechanical Engineer
This role will work with other engineers and designers to achieve the goals of assigned programs and projects. A successful candidate would need to be able to provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. The Mechanical Engineer will work under the direction of the lead mechanical engineer. They will contribute to determining and developing approaches to solutions.

Mechanical Engineer Qualifications
Experience with computer aided tools including both solid modeling and drafting packages is required. Experience with SolidWorks is strongly desired.
Experience using FEA modeling tools is desired.
Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials science, and prototyping techniques is strongly desired.
Ability to apply mechanical engineering theories to practical designs is required.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
Knowledge of polymers and composite materials is desired.
Knowledge of design and drafting methods including geometric dimensioning & tolerance is strongly desired.
Knowledge of engineering tests techniques, methods, equipment and instrumentation is strongly desired.
0-2 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Mechanical Engineer
A successful candidate would need to be able to provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions would need to be imaginative, thorough, practicable and consistent with organization objectives. This implies a complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in mechanical engineering.

The Mechanical Engineer will work under the direction of the lead mechanical engineer. They will contribute to determining and developing approaches to solutions.

Mechanical Engineer Qualifications
Experience with computer aided tools including both solid modeling and drafting packages is required. Experience with SolidWorks is strongly desired.
Experience using FEA modeling tools is desired.
Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials science, and prototyping techniques is strongly desired.
Ability to apply mechanical engineering theories to practical designs is required.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
Knowledge of polymers and composite materials is desired.
Knowledge of design and drafting methods including geometric dimensioning & tolerance is strongly desired.
Knowledge of engineering tests techniques, methods, equipment and instrumentation is strongly desired.
Knowledge of domestic and international regulations (e.g. FAA or DOD regulations) on the certification of test articles/vehicles to assure compliance of design is desired.
2-4 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or 0-3 years in an engineering classification with a Master's degree.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Mobility Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR.

Mobility Engineer Qualifications:
Intermediate to expert knowledge of OSX 10.6 -10.8 including command line administration of OS X from 10.6 – 10.8.
Intermediate to Expert level package building using Apple Package Maker.
Expertise on various hardware platforms including iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, iPad, iPod Touch.
Success in supporting and administering large implementations of iOS and OSX devices in a multi-location / geography environment.
Ability to triage, troubleshoot and fix problems and incidents – using vendor and third-party tools and technical support where required. Includes experience providing desk side and remote support as required via ticketing system.
Candidate should have a solid networking background.
Task oriented with a strong focus on meeting goals in a timely manner.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on interactive digital experiences including touchscreen hardware is a plus.
Current ACTC and 10.6 ACSA certification is a plus.
Experience in a Retail support environment is a plus.
Intermediate level image creation and deployment using Apple tools, Jamf tools and DeployStudio is a plus.
Experience managing OSX & IOS devices via Profiles using Apple's Profile Manager or other solution.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Network Administrator
Our client is seeking a Network Administrator to join their team in Portland, OR. The position will support Network Services organization located at Headquarters. This position will provide support for networking connectivity in an Internet/intranet environment. The position supports high performing infrastructure on various network components such as cable plants, patch panels, routers, and switches by installing, configuring and troubleshooting using provided tools.

Network Administrator Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Network Administration, Computer Technology, Information Technology (or closely related field) is preferred.
With an applicable bachelor’s degree, 3 years of experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 5 years of experience is required.
Experience should be in the Computer Technology or related technical field.

Required Technical Skills & Experience
3 years of experience in IP networks supporting a large client pool environment.
1 years of experience with Cisco products and IOS.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Network Engineer
Our client is seeking a Network Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities of the Network Engineer
Work with internal and external stake-holders to prototype, test and refine the networking centric portions of our product design.
Work with the Software and Systems Engineering to integrate network designs with IQ-Core Software to exercise existing capabilities and define new features.
Test and troubleshoot hardware, software and networking for internal products.
Develop BOMs for company product and submit NFR request to manufacturers.
Setup, operation and maintenance of our networking lab environment.
Design, and implement procedures/scripts for configuration and testing of systems.
Perform physical installation and configuration of developed solutions.
25-50% CONUS and OCONUS Travel required.
Occasional “Tier 3” support.
Occasional customer engagements to demonstrate or deploy internal technology.
Performance requires physical attendance.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications of the Network Engineer
3-5 years in system administration and network engineering, required.
B.S. in IT, CS, or equivalent experience, required.
Experience with multiple VPN implementations, both site-to-site and remote access, required.
Experience with PKI and certificate-based authentication, required.
Experience with Networking Devices required (Switches, Routers and Firewalls).
Experience with Cisco IOS and ASA devices, required.
CCNA or ability to attain CCNA, required.
Experience with Cisco Voice Gateways and Cisco Call Manager, strongly desired.
Experience with VMware Vsphere (ESXi), strongly desired.
Experience with other network equipment vendors (Palo Alto, Aruba, Riverbed, etc.), desired.
Experience with Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, desired.
Experience with PC hardware and troubleshooting, desired.
Experience with any network management applications such as: SolarWinds, SNMPc, What’s Up Gold, desired.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to present complex technology to technical and non-technical customer audiences.
Independent Professional that can perform job assignment with limited supervision.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Network Engineer
Our client is looking for a Network Engineer to provide advanced-level engineering and operational support for enterprise network services and systems. Will participate in architectural design and implementation plans for network solutions addressing project objectives and other customer needs, and to carry out scripted and pre-directed instructions for various network deployments. Will perform required maintenance and upgrade of systems, and troubleshooting for network-related performance issues, incidents and outages. Will implement and enforce security standards as established by enterprise standards and policies.

Network Engineer Qualifications
Expert technical integration experience in heterogeneous enterprises.
Expert and thorough understanding of the principles of IP addressing, communication protocols and domain name services.
Advanced ability to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot data, voice, and video network systems.
Advanced experience managing diverse networks using a variety of transports.
Advanced knowledge and working skill experience with Quality of Service (QoS) concepts and implementation.
Advanced ability to use networking tools and diagnostic tools to perform traffic analysis and troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve problems. Ability to evaluate log files and traces to determine problems and ability to identify and implement recovery operations.
Advanced and thorough understanding of network security and at least 5 years wide area network (WAN) experience that includes management of authentication systems, access control software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and security vulnerability assessment software.
Advanced and thorough understanding of the design, configuration and management of devices using Cisco IOS and Cisco NX-OS. Familiarity with OSPF, BGP, MPLS and DMVPN design and configuration.
Advanced experience of cloud networking design and configuration for both Azure and AWS environments.
Advanced experience with next-generation firewall deployments and administration with emphasis on deep packet inspection and intrusion prevention system capabilities.
Advanced knowledge of disaster recovery processes and associated hardware and software knowledge.
Advanced ability to create and maintain complex network diagrams and schematics.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Node.js API Developer
Our client is seeking a Node.js API Developer to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR

Node.js API Developer Responsibilities:
Continuously integrate, write unit tests, perform static code analysis, create automated integration and performance tests.
Work in a micro services architecture, use domain driven design and implement RESTful services using Node.js.
Participating in on-call support for applications.
Work in a highly collaborative environment where you’ll be able to share ideas with other engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders.
Drive foundation work to create highly scalable distributed systems.
Mentor junior developers.

Node.js API Developer Qualifications:
5+ years of software development experience in a professional setting.
3+ years of experience with AWS technologies like Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Kinesis.
Experience with NoSQL stores like Dynamo DB.
Deploy and support services in a distributed/cloud-based environment (CircleCI or Jenkins is a plus).
Has developed and worked with monitoring tools like New Relic, Splunk, etc.
DevOps for solutions.
Ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly and lead team with innovative solutions.
Passionate about Agile methodologies – leader in developing acceptance criteria for enabling features and stories.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Observability Application Engineer
Our client is looking for an Observability Application Engineer to join their team.
Observability Application Engineer Responsibilities
Write reusable, tested, and efficient software code and scripts.
Write automated tests to validate changes, and manually test those changes.
Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems and code defects.
Use a variety of tools to manage source code, builds, and deployments.
Operate supported systems in test and production environments.
Provide technical support for tools and systems owned by the team.
Be an active participant in team meetings and processes, like design and code reviews.
Suggest and implement ways to improve tools and processes.
Collaborate with other engineers and teams to design solutions and resolve issues.
Work with product owners to understand and raise questions about business requirements.

Observability Application Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
Professional experience working as a software engineer, system administrator, or other related position.
Strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively with business partners and other engineers.
History of continual learning about technical subjects.
Strong knowledge of Java, Node, and Python.
Tool experience in or / like Signal FX, Datadog, New Relic, etc.
Experience with a revision control tool like Git or Subversion.
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Office Administrator
Our Portland client is looking for an Office Administrator to support administrative functions for their professional firm. This role is a great opportunity to get a foot in the door at a distinguished firm and enjoys a modern downtown setting in the heart of Portland.

Responsibilities of the Office Administrator
Provide administrative support to professional staff.
Handle incoming correspondence and phone calls.
Document management.
Mail runs and delivery.
Maintain office supplies and work environment.
Manage calendars and scheduling, including company-wide events, presentations, meetings, and travel arrangements.
Coordinate special events, including retreats, open houses, and employee lunches.
Assist with onboarding processes.
Manage meeting minutes.
Maintain meeting rooms.
Assist with invoice prep.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Office Administrator Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent.
1-3 years of administrative support experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel, Outlook, and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent customer service, interpersonal, and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Articulate and well-spoken with a professional demeanor.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking an On Call Technical Sample Producer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The nature of the work is focused on research and development of products from conception to retail to meet the needs of accounts and consumers.

On Call Technical Sample Producer Responsibilities:
Constructs and influences the construction of technically advanced prototype, promotional, or athlete specific products and/or components for development, testing.
Prepares, fabricates, and assembles materials and components using various types of systems, machinery, and hand tools including machines for cutting, sewing, lasting, buffing, and sanding. Evaluates and trouble shoots sample parts and products inspecting for quality and consistency through prototype or product specific assembly.

On Call Technical Sample Producer Qualifications:
High school diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 2 years relevant work experience.
Technical degree in engineering, manufacturing or related field preferred.
Product construction experience in one or more consumer goods including footwear, apparel, or equipment.
Understanding of manufacturing; knowledge of hand tools and other equipment and machinery used in construction; general knowledge of materials used in athletic performance products.Inside Operations: May be required to perform a wide variety of physical tasks which are generally basic, repetitive, and routine in nature.
May be required to sit or stand for long periods of time, in addition to being required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, push, or pull.
May be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel small and medium sized components while operating machinery and exerting force or lift up to 50 pounds. May be called upon to perform physical and quality checks requiring sufficient visual acuity to identify quality flaws and distinguish colors on small components.
May be required to work with toxic or caustic chemicals and be exposed to fumes or airborne particles. May be required to work with or near large machinery and moving mechanical parts so they may be subject to higher noise levels, vibration, and there may be a risk of electrical shock.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Operation Project Manager Responsibilities
Partner with a Project Manager to meet or exceed client expectations for project deliverables.
Act as the primary point of contact for project status (including communicating status to management and executives, as requested) and deliver daily project health reports.
Draft and maintain operational project timelines based on client requirements.
Ensure all project requirements are gathered, documented, approved, and implemented.
Manage interdepartmental communication, acting as a liaison between departments, removing roadblocks, and calling/managing meetings whenever necessary.
Manage project workflow to ensure standard processes are followed and communicate when requests unnecessarily deviate from the standard.
Communicate risk and provide solutions for risk mitigation.
Work with stakeholders to call out issues and provide solutions to create greater project efficiencies.
Open and manage Service Requests to document and track all project-related activity.

***Does this position speak to what you're passionate about? Tell us about it! In a few sentences, let us know why you feel this could be a perfect match!***

Operation Project Manager Qualifications
2 years of experience as a Project Coordinator or Operations Project Manager.
Must be able to embrace change, laugh at yourself and focus on solutions.

Preferred
Financial industry knowledge, specifically banking.
Learn new processes or procedures with minimal direction and guidance.
Knowledgeable user in Microsoft Office with experience communicating technical business rules and requirements.
Strong analysis and high attention to detail.
Critical thinking skills and the ability to efficiently gather and process information in a fast paced environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Operations Analyst
Our client is seeking a Operations Analyst to join their team in This contract Operations Analyst position is located in the Business Operations organization. The Transmission Internal Operations, Strategic Planning and Performance Management function has responsibility for strategic planning and performance management.
This position collaborates with other business units throughout Transmission Services and internally to develop and monitor strategic performance measures and provide analytical support to the Strategic Planning and Performance Management function within Transmission Services. The position serves as the technical backup for the Senior Analyst for the Strategic Planning and Performance Management function in the Transmission Services Internal Operations organization. This position also provides support for changes during the operating year for targets; serves as liaison with Corporate Strategic Planning group; collaborates on performance indicators, targets, processes, and policies; and serves as Transmission’s System Administrator for Performance Scorecard software.

This role also supports the following functions: collaboration, coordination, and presentation operational activities to assist transmission management in Data-Driven Decision Making. Gather, analyze and format a wide variety of data, and report on critical data metrics for Transmission Services. Timely reporting, data input and preparation of data reports (graphs, tables and reports) to the Transmission Vice Presidents (VP) and Senior VPs. A valid U.S. drivers License is required and up to 5% travel to meeting within the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Up to 5% overtime is anticipated.

Operations Analyst Responsibilities
Note: All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by appropriate manager or other personnel with the authority to do so.
Strategic Planning
Draft and maintain performance metrics on the quality of key business information.
Develop and provide briefings, as requested, to managers on information quality to raise awareness.
Establish and maintain dashboards and internal reports used by Transmission managers, VPs and Senior VPs.
Provide various reporting/tracking analyses in support of Transmission Services.
Aggregate overall data collected.
Draft management reporting tools, such as dashboards, PowerPoints and spreadsheets that document and communicate the progress of financial and risk related activities to verify timely completion.
Propose priorities and prepare final documentation on assigned processes for management approval.
Support Managers by providing data analysis and other ad-hoc reports, as requested.
Attend functional group meetings to provide information and expertise regarding where and how information is obtained; gather information related to Key Strategic Initiatives (KSI’s) Balance Scorecards and other financial information for reporting purposes.
Maintain report development and data quality control; communicate report failures immediately to managers and analysts.
Identify gaps and suggest improvements and solutions to internal inefficiencies.
Coordinate with in-house subject matter experts (SMEs) to facilitate technical reviews and address deficiencies as necessary.
Coordinate responses to requests for information, spot checks, surveys and program activities.
Communicate, mediate and facilitate timely resolution of issues with implementing organizations.
Facilitate TAB SharePoint development, population, and administration.
Organize, monitor, analyze, evaluate and report on performance pertaining to data collection and processes.
Supports inputs, processes and documentation; communicates options and recommendations to SMEs and management to solicit feedback and further course direction.
Attend relevant meetings as assigned. Prepare meeting reports for manager, SME’s and any other identified staff.
Serve as Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Coordinator for strategic planning process.
Supports development of transmission measures, coordinate and collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) across Transmission.
Keep Internal Operations Manager’s (IOM’s) informed of target development and apprised of target impacts. This allows Manager’s to engage in executive level discussions and make informed decisions.
Validate that the most current BSC targets and ownership are appropriately represented in executive contracts.
Analyze Transmission performance against targets during the year for accuracy, quality and program status (i.e. green/yellow/red).
Coordinate with Transmission Services executive measure owners and SME’s and prepare comprehensive reports for the Transmission Management Committee’s (TMC) meeting with the Administrator.
Responsible for developing a variety of reports and automated briefing media and for timely and accurate communication to Transmission Executives and Transmission employees.
Operations Analyst Qualifications
A degree in the disciplines outlined below is preferred:
With an applicable bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Systems Management, Organizational Development, Data Management or a closely-related field, 5 years of operations or business analysis experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 9 years of operations or business analysis experience is required.

Required Technical Skills & Experience
Advanced knowledge of SharePoint, Visio, and Access.
A high degree of efficiency in technical dynamics of software output (e.g. use of advanced printing such as to plotters, capabilities of cross-software embedding for purposes of presentations, technical webinars, etc.).

Preferred Skills & Experience
A working knowledge of automated data specialized utility systems.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking an Operations Center Incident Manager to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. The Operations Center (OC) primary purpose is to oversee our client’s Technical Operations highly complex environments and take actions necessary to provide exceptional Customer Experience, maintain product availability, and restore services for any issues that may occur.

The team is geographically dispersed across US, Europe, China, The Philippines, and India. The team consists of ~60 Members including Managers, Tech Leads, Incident Managers, Site Reliability Engineers, and Resolving Engineers.

Operations Center Incident Manager Responsibilities:
Quickly gain the ability to understand multiple applications and technologies.
Identify issues in production by observing our monitoring tools and dashboards.
Follow technical knowledge articles to remediate or escalate issues to the appropriate teams.
Execute trouble-shooting steps and create incident documentation with proper technical details.
Identify major incidents and escalate via the Incident Management (IM) Process.
Take a command and control role as Incident Manager during critical incidents focusing on restoring services as quickly as possible.
Participate in After Action Reviews and facilitate discovery of Root Cause.
Identify, evaluate and execute preventive measures to minimize/avoid impact to the consumer experience.
Collaborate with all teams to identify new (or upgrades to existing) technology and facilitate onboarding to our monitoring systems.
Understand, build and refine communications to inform subscribed audience of business status and impacts from incidents.
Provide Leadership with KPI reports/dashboards with respect to Incident trend, SLAs, MTTR and other information as requested.
Create documentation for Operations Center Engineers

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Operations Project Manager
Are you the person on the team that is calm in the midst of chaos?
Are you known for having thick skin and a problem-solver mindset?
Me too.
Our client will be hiring an Operations Project Manager for a 2 year Contract to join their collaborative team in Beaverton, OR.
Responsible for supporting the operational functions relating to cases that are on boarded at Class Action and Mass Tort Solutions.
Responsible for working with internal operational groups throughout the project lifecycles and coordinating deliverables to meet project objectives.
Develop and manage the overall project timeline for multiple projects occurring simultaneously.
This position requires a loose understanding of technology and data.
Pay range: $30.00/hr. W2

Operation Project Manager Responsibilities
Partner with a Project Manager to meet or exceed client expectations for project deliverables.
Act as the primary point of contact for project status (including communicating status to management and executives, as requested) and deliver daily project health reports.
Draft and maintain operational project timelines based on client requirements.
Ensure all project requirements are gathered, documented, approved, and implemented.
Manage interdepartmental communication, acting as a liaison between departments, removing roadblocks, and calling/managing meetings whenever necessary.
Manage project workflow to ensure standard processes are followed and communicate when requests unnecessarily deviate from the standard.
Communicate risk and provide solutions for risk mitigation.
Work with stakeholders to call out issues and provide solutions to create greater project efficiencies.
Open and manage Service Requests to document and track all project-related activity.

***Does this position speak to what you're passionate about? Tell us about it! In a few sentences, let us know why you feel this could be a perfect match!***

Operation Project Manager Qualifications
2 years of experience as a Project Coordinator or Operations Project Manager.
Must be able to embrace change, laugh at yourself and focus on solutions.

Preferred
Financial industry knowledge, specifically banking.
Learn new processes or procedures with minimal direction and guidance.
Knowledgeable user in Microsoft Office with experience communicating technical business rules and requirements.
Strong analysis and high attention to detail.
Critical thinking skills and the ability to efficiently gather and process information in a fast paced environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking an Operations Support to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The position will require understanding of data warehouse concepts and environments, expert in supporting and maintaining the business day to day operations using SSIS, T-SQL, Excel, MS SQL Server, and other customized tools within the team. This role will require the candidate to understand the unconventional data warehouse and make configuration changes to support operational expansion. The person for this role will also have testing skills to support other developers on the team and make sure the data is flowing correctly and validating data throughout the data warehouse and other systems. There will be some development working depending on the skill set of the candidate.

Operations Support Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related discipline.
Minimum of 3 years professional experience in an operations and support role in a data driven environment.
Minimum of 2 years of professional experience required for T-SQL Querying (Ideally with Microsoft SQL Server 2014/2016).
Minimum of 2 years of SSIS, specializing in ETL.
Minimum of 2 years of testing in a data driven environment
Technical/Functional Requirements for the position include:
Minimum of 2 years experience in T-SQL – Able to query complex datasets and derive conclusions, including: Using all types of joins between multiple tables, aggregations
Collaborate with other teams and analysts to validate data in various systems.
Ability to understand Relational and Dimensional Modeling.
Troubleshooting and maintenance skills in SSIS.
Ability to understand complex stored procedures and dynamic t-sql.
Strong background in testing and implement new corrections and improvements, working with business stakeholders.
Ability to write and execute detailed test cases and T-SQL scripts that exercise all aspects of the system under test.
Collaborate with development team to invent and analyze analytics specifications to meet business goals
Participate in code review sessions and offer suggestions and recommendations.
Knowledge of Team Foundation Server (TFS) a plus.
Interpersonal Skills:
Proven ability to work with a range of personality types.
Willingness to take direction from team members and offer recommendations on process improvements areas.
Organized and able to work and collaborate effectively with a team.
Feels comfortable asking questions and working with engineering and analyst team members.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Payroll Analyst
Our Pacific Northwest client is looking for a Payroll Analyst to support payroll processing and audits for their team in Portland. This is a great temp to hire opportunity, with potential for professional growth and advancement at a company with a great local reputation.

Responsibilities of the Payroll Analyst
Biweekly payroll processing.
Audit payroll weekly.
Serve as backup to payroll manager as needed.
Review payroll policy, best practice, and processes.
Participate in the continuous development and implementation of payroll policy, best practice, and process improvements.
Support training and mentorship within payroll functions.
Quarterly and annual payroll updates.
Compile data from payroll audits.
Respond to payroll inquiries.
Other special payroll projects and duties as assigned.

Payroll Analyst Qualifications
Associate degree in Accounting or equivalent education and experience; FPC or CPP preferred.
5 years of progressively responsible accounting experience.
4 years of hands-on payroll processing experience.
Knowledge of GAAP and tax regulations.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and cross-functionally as part of a team.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Payroll Specialist Qualifications
Associate degree in Accounting preferred.
1-3 years of payroll experience.
Knowledge of wage and hour compliance.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to show discretion and confidentiality.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

PeopleSoft Financials developer
Our client is seeking a PeopleSoft Financials Developer to join their team in Portland, OR. This role provides application software development services.

Responsibilities
Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications. Codes, tests, debugs and documents software applications.
Analyzes requirements and tests and integrates application components.
Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Performance Tester
Our client is seeking a Performance Tester to join their team in Portland, OR. The selected candidate will be passionate about Quality Assurance and see it as an integral piece in the SDLC. Instead of just focusing on locating the bugs of an application, you look at the entire workflow for ways to increase performance.
Testing complex applications can be daunting, so you look to speed up the QA process by automating what you can. You’re proficient with Java or Python, and you’ve worked with either JMeter or SOASTA in a past role.
You’re highly organized and manage your time well. You prefer to work in a collaborative team setting over being a solo contributor. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, let us know!

Qualifications
2-4 years as a Performance Engineer.
Minimum B.S. degree in computer science or a related field; or equivalent work experience and/or education in lieu of a degree.
Experience creating workflows.
Experience developing scripts in either JMeter or SOASTA.
Scripting experience with Java or Python.
Experience with SQL.
Previous experience testing web applications.
Needs to be comfortable working in a collaborative environment
Good communication skills.
Able to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
Must be able to multi-task efficiently.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
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Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Pipeline Technical Director to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting software that enables our client’s Art Studio to design and create without being hindered by technical restraints. Software tools generally involve Python development of automation scripts and user-friendly custom extensions of tools like Maya, Photoshop, and Modo.

Pipeline Technical Director Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Graphics or similar experience.
Artistic eye, interests, and background.
Professional experience with Windows, OSX, and Linux.
3-5 years of professional experience with Python.
3 years of experience with C++ or Java.
Minimum of 5 years experience writing tools for 3D modeling and animation software (Maya, Modo, Cinema4D).
Professional experience with various renderers ( Vray, Arnold, Renderman, Octane).
Familiar with rendering techniques, including Path/RayTracing and Rasterizers.
Experience with cloth simulation very desirable.
Ability to multi-task.
Familiar working a fast-paced production environment.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. As a Platform Engineer you will be revolutionizing the intersection of technology and R&D of physical products by delivering a platform ecosystem for internal apps to produce and consume data. Our client values using AWS native solutions to deliver infrastructure, deployment pipelines, data processing services, data stores, and advanced search capabilities. The team is dedicated to delivering quickly, where everyone is empowered to design solutions for new features and review code of other team members. We are pushing the envelope in our agile process by embedding directly with business teams. Our goal is continuous delivery with an emphasis on learning new technologies and techniques, while pairing to solve problems faster, share knowledge, and learn from others.

Platform Engineer Qualifications:
Bachelors' degree or equivalent experience, with 2 years professional experience in software engineering.
High motivation and passion for continuous learning.
Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to see the big picture and decompose it into domains.
Ability to deal with ambiguous requirements and quickly changing directions.
Opinionated yet humble.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Platform Product Owner to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. As a Platform Product Owner on the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform Product Team, this individual will own the Analytics and Visualization Tools, working with fast pace engineering teams and representing the view of the customer.

Platform Product Owner Responsibilities:
Partnership with the Enterprise Data & Analytics Visualization & Reporting Portal COEs to enhance and drive standards across business users.
Works closely with Platform Product Directors to understand and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps that are aligned with our client’s strategies and initiatives.
Represents the customer in sprints to the delivery teams and provides sprint feature prioritization to ensure technology alignment with business priorities & strategies.
Is accountable for engineering team(s) backlog grooming across all Analytics and Visualization Tools teams.
Provides customer service to our technology and business partners for onboarding, adoption, and documentation.
Partners closely with Reference Architecture, Domain/Solution Architecture, and Platform Engineering to align Platform Product Roadmaps with execution plans.
Measure and report on the value provided by Platform Product offerings and provide regular updates to stakeholders on product priority, delivery, and adoption.
Stays current with industry trends and recommends relevant technologies & products in the areas of Data and Analytical tools, Advanced Visualization, Forecast tools, and other emerging technologies in the areas of Analytics & Visualization.
Contributes back to the overall Data & Analytics Platform roadmap and prioritized backlog.

Platform Product Owner Qualifications:
Technologies
Must have experience and/or deep knowledge of Tableau, Metrics Insight, IBM Cognos/ Planning Analytics, and/or similar technologies as to empathize, translate, and prioritize requirements to deliver them globally.
Must have an understanding of enterprise security and privacy requirements associated with the above technologies.
3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner for technology related products. Will consider candidates with less experience that have deep technical domain knowledge as an architect.
7+ years’ experience in technology & architecture roles.
Proven experience collaborating on latest technologies with Engineers and Architects.
Extensive background in working with business partners: Translating business needs into prioritized technology features and requirements.
Proven track record of being results oriented with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Experience with Agile software development methodology.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
Experience working in a highly matrixed organization.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally.
A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Platform Product Owner to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. As a Platform Product Owner on the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform Product Team, this individual will own Data Science & Machine Learning products, working with fast pace engineering teams and representing the view of the customer.

Platform Product Owner Responsibilities:
Partnership with the Enterprise Data & Analytics AAML and our client’s Digital Engineering (“Serve”) teams to enhance and drive standards across business users.
Works closely with Platform Product Directors to understand and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps that are aligned with our client’s strategies and initiatives.
Represents the customer in sprints to the delivery teams and provides sprint feature prioritization to ensure technology alignment with business priorities & strategies.
Is accountable for engineering team(s) backlog grooming across multiple engineering teams.
Provides customer service to our technology and business partners for onboarding, adoption, and documentation.
Partners closely with Reference Architecture, Domain/Solution Architecture, and Platform Engineering to align Platform Product Roadmaps with execution plans.
Measure and report on the value provided by Platform Product offerings and provide regular updates to stakeholders on product priority, delivery, and adoption.
Stays current with industry trends and recommends relevant technologies & products in the areas of Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science tools and other emerging technologies in the areas of Enterprise Data & Analytics.
Contributes back to the overall Data & Analytics Platform roadmap and prioritized backlog.

Platform Product Owner Qualifications:Technologies:
Must have knowledge and/or Experience with technologies such as AWS Sagemaker, Tensorflow, Kubeflow, Data Robot, Databricks & Spark, AWS EMR, and similar platforms. Should be able to communicate with customers each technology and the benefits/tradeoffs of each solution.
Must have knowledge and/or Experience of open source technologies and impact of make/buy decisions in the area of Data Science, AI, & ML.
Must be able to articulate and/or have experience with the lifecycle of model development from notebooks into production.
Must have an understanding of enterprise security and privacy requirements associated with the above technologies.
3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner for technology related products. Will consider candidates with less experience that have deep technical domain knowledge as an architect.
7+ years’ experience in technology & architecture roles.
Proven experience collaborating on latest technologies with Engineers and Architects.
Extensive background in working with business partners: Translating business needs into prioritized technology features and requirements.
Proven track record of being results oriented with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Experience with Agile software development methodology.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
Experience working in a highly matrixed organization.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally.
A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field. Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Platform Product Owner to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. As a Platform Product Owner on the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform Product Team, this individual will own Data Engineering, Orchestration, & Compute products, working with fast pace engineering teams and representing the view of the customer.

Platform Product Owner Responsibilities:
Partnership with the Enterprise Data & Analytics and Digital Engineering (“Serve”) teams to enhance and drive standards across business users.
Works closely with Platform Product Directors to understand and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps that are aligned with our client’s strategies and initiatives.
Represents the customer in sprints to the delivery teams and provides sprint feature prioritization to ensure technology alignment with business priorities & strategies.
Is accountable for engineering team(s) backlog grooming across multiple engineering teams.
Provides customer service to our technology and business partners for onboarding, adoption, and documentation.
Partners closely with Reference Architecture, Domain/Solution Architecture, and Platform Engineering to align Platform Product Roadmaps with execution plans.
Measure and report on the value provided by Platform Product offerings and provide regular updates to stakeholders on product priority, delivery, and adoption.
Stays current with industry trends and recommends relevant technologies & products in the areas of Data Engineering, Orchestration, and Compute and other emerging technologies in the areas of Enterprise Data & Analytics.
Contributes back to the overall Data & Analytics Platform roadmap and prioritized backlog.

Platform Product Owner Qualifications:Technologies:
Must have knowledge and/or Experience with technologies such as Airflow, NiFi, AWS Kinesis, Kafka, Jupiter Hub, AWS EMR, Databricks & Spark, Alteryx, and similar platforms. Should be able to communicate with customers each technology and the benefits/tradeoffs of each solution.
Must be able to articulate and/or have experience with data lakes, data streaming, and distributed computing patterns for access, movement, management, privacy & security, and data collaboration.
3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner for technology related products. Will consider candidates with less experience that have deep technical domain knowledge as an architect.
7+ years’ experience in technology & architecture roles.
Proven experience collaborating on latest technologies with Engineers and Architects.
Extensive background in working with business partners: Translating business needs into prioritized technology features and requirements.
Proven track record of being results oriented with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Experience with Agile software development methodology.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
Experience working in a highly matrixed organization.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally.
A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Principal IS Program Manager to join their dynamic team in Renton, WA. The Principle Program Manager is responsible for advising, consulting, and managing a number of complex projects under a common objective under a single program (or across several programs). The Program Manager is assigned to programs with the highest complexity and broadest breadth - typically at the enterprise-level. While operating much more independently, this position works collaboratively with business/facility operational leadership, intake and governance teams, as well as IS groups required to deploy IS services and technology. The Principal Program Manager is the primary point of contact between business/facility executive leadership and the resource managers of all IS teams and is responsible for engaging executive leadership and communicating the progress of the program.

This position will facilitate between executive leadership, resource managers of all IS teams, project management and consulting resources, and will be responsible for engaging executive leadership and communicating status of the program.

The Principal Program Manager is accountable for working with and facilitating processes to accomplish complex program objectives, managing change and resolving issues that span across project teams and departments by planning, organizing, directing, and supervising program activities in a cost-effective and productive manner to achieve customer satisfaction. This position relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals on complex issues where analyses of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variables.

To ensure the success of their program(s), Principal Program Managers work collaboratively with multiple members of the project team(s)- including directors in organizational development, IS operations, informatics, project intake, growth & expansion, healthcare intelligence, integration, applications, and IT infrastructure. The Principal Program Manager may oversee teams of up to 25-100 candidates.

The Principal Program Manager ensures projects related to the program are planned and executed in a manner that supports our client’s mission and supports integration and collaboration across the health system while meeting the organizational objectives.

The candidate must be sufficiently fluent in the English language to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the position. The degree of fluency required will vary depending upon the nature of the position.

Principal IS Program Manager Essential Functions:
Develop projects within a program in alignment with the organization’s strategic plans and objectives with little/no oversight.
Proactively and independently manages client expectations for timelines and deliverables throughout the project/program lifecycle with little/no intervention.
Develop and gain sponsor approval for project delivery dates.
Manage portfolio programs with very high complexity, strategic priority and/or visibility, system and/or regional priority - typically at an enterprise level.
Engages and organizes the assignment of activities of multi-functional, large-scale teams, as well as the project estimates, task dependencies and schedule.
Scope, risk and issue management, including documenting, communicating and facilitating resolutions or mitigation plans with little/no direction.
Proactively and independently develops, initiates and manages a communication plan, including regular program status reports.
Manages stakeholders and multiple project teams in the context of a single or multiple program(s) with little/no intervention.
Acts as a coach and mentor to others, especially (but not limited to) other project management staff, leaders, project leads, and customers.
Pro-actively and independently develops root cause analyses and process improvement plans.
Maintains all program artifacts and sets the standards for other program/project management resources on the program(s).
Prepares and delivers presentations to senior leadership, management and stakeholders with little/no support or intervention.
Management: Demonstrated success independently managing project managers, project portfolios and/or multiple projects and teams simultaneously, assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning, managing the process of design, development, integration and/or implementation of software products, equipment, and facilities.

Principal IS Program Manager Qualifications:
Required Bachelor's Degree Or equivalent educ/experience.
Preferred Master's Degree.
Required 8 years 8-10 years Information Services/Information Technology and/or Healthcare Industry experience.
Required 8 years 8-10 years in the project / program management field.
Preferred 3 years 3-5 years of experience in resource management.
Required 1 year 1-3 relevant portfolio experience (eg. EMR, Business Applications, M&A, Infrastructure, etc.).
**Must have Epic Implementation Experience***
Experience with vendor/contract management and negotiations.
Development and execution experience with business development, marketing, communications, financial planning, and benchmarks/metrics in support of improved quality and process design.
Ability to utilize special equipment such as telephone and personal computer equipment; software including business applications, electronic medical record, practice management, financial management, project management and reporting.
PC peripherals and other office or AV equipment such as digital projectors, fax, scanner, copier and others.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Principal Project Manager
The Principal Project Manager is accountable for one or more large, diverse and complex projects in the areas of information technology, quality improvement, strategic objectives and goals. The Principal Project Manager ensures projects are planned and executed in a manner that supports the company’s mission, integration and collaboration across the system, and meets the organizational objectives. This position reports to the Portfolio Leader, IS Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO), and must establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels, as well as with other staff, vendors and agents, and others.

This role requires expert level communication, organization and critical thinking skills. The candidate must have previous knowledge and experience with leading enterprise-wide IT infrastructure projects. Experience with effectively leading multiple workstreams and successful project teams is required. A self-starter, with ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required. Must be well organized, with solid experience providing executive level presentations and status reporting.

Principal Project Manager Qualifications
Ten or more years of experience leading large, diverse and often complex projects is required.
Expertise and experience with Project Management methodology based on project management principles required.
Experience in incorporating process improvement methodologies into large scale projects; Certifications in process optimization such as Six Sigma, Lean, CQIA or other nationally recognized certifications preferred.
Experience facilitating complex decisions making among multiple executive stakeholders with different interests and priorities is essential.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.

Skilled in strategic planning, program management, group motivation, discipline and diplomacy.
Superb written and oral communication skills on interpersonal and technical levels.
Experienced in vendor/contract management and negotiations.
Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and align with an organization, its structure and priorities.
Advanced leadership skills, with the ability to successfully serve as a coach and mentor to colleagues and others.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, prioritize work, manage time and respond effectively to a rapidly changing environment.
Exercises sound political and environmental judgment as appropriate to support successful project implementation.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning.
Demonstrated success managing other project managers, project portfolios and/or multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated experience in business development and/or strategic and tactical planning and execution including marketing, communications and financial planning.
Demonstrated experience as a speaker in a professional presentation environment, such as conferences and association meetings.
Experience developing and implementing benchmarks and metrics in support of improved quality and process design.
Excellent written and oral communication that is excellent in the areas of timeliness, accuracy, professionalism.
Demonstrated ability to manage projects with multiple project teams, product development lifecycle, or quality lifecycle.
Demonstrated ability to inform and influence senior leadership, management and individuals in various parts of the organization to work toward successful outcomes.
Ability to understand business or clinical strategies and plans, and their relationship to organizational strategies.
Ability to analyze and report on foreseeable future implications of current decisions.
Ability to utilize special equipment such as telephone and personal computer equipment; software including business applications, electronic medical record, practice management, financial management, project management and reporting. PC peripherals and other office or AV equipment such as digital projectors, fax, scanner, copier and others.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Principal Software Engineer
Our client is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. This is your chance to work prominently on a software development team fitted hand-in-glove with business teams to build new and improved products and services for customers.

This role will be providing technical leadership and inspiration for a team at the heart of high-volume, high-availability trade clearing suite (we partner with some of the industry's hottest next-generation stock trading products), you'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits as a backend engineer.

Principal Software Engineer Responsibilities
Deliver results. Collaborate with those around you to produce lean, pragmatic solutions in a predictable and transparent way. Using modern tools and techniques with lightweight agile process, you will join a team of engineers writing, reviewing and shipping high-impact solutions for customers.
You'll be a strong backend engineer.
Discover and define business and technical requirements for new features and products.
Embody the company values and work to positively impact those around you.
Though they commonly use Java8 on Linux, they deal with all technology – Linux and Windows; .NET and Java; SQL and noSQL (mongoDB); RabbitMQ and other open source tools and libraries.

You have extensive experience developing software products and services across a variety of tools, frameworks, and environments. You recognize your strengths and also know when to reach out for help
You have a genuine passion for solving interesting technology problems with creative and simple solutions.
You'd rather deliver a 40% solution in 2 weeks than an 80% solution in six
You're excited to work with fellow engineers, but also know how to partner across departments to get things done
You're looking to do amazing work.
You're all about using technology to improve the customer experience and affect the company's bottom line, but also want to mentor and coach those within your team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Our client is seeking a Product Analyst to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. DSM Price Management group has the global ownership of all tools and applications used for price, promotions and markdown management. We are looking for an analytically driven Product Analyst or Business Systems Analyst who will own product definition, prioritize work and ensure alignment across multiple teams. The successful candidate will create detailed product requirements and work closely with Engineering, QA, Release Management and stakeholder teams to successfully maintain the products. The candidate will have ‘Keep the Lights On’ (KLO) ownership of global price management products, working with Engineering and Support teams.

Product Analyst Responsibilities:
Develops partnerships and works closely with business team members to understand and document day in the life and usability requirements through storyboards, wireframes, user interface specifications and other documentation.
Performs data analysis to influence and inform key decisions and requirements gathering .
Partners with both internal and external technology, analytics and engineering teams to deliver top quality solutions.
Creates integration context diagrams and associated systems process models to aid in clarity.

Works closely with Business functional analyst and business customer to ensure information and integration requirements are clearly understood and resolve any conflicts.
Creates and maintains paper prototypes, User Interface (UI) storyboards and UI specifications by working closely with functional analysts and Business team members.
Participates in creating the organization, navigation, and the look-n-feel of the UI for the application in collaboration with systems/functional analysts and Business team members.
Defines test scenarios based on business processes and may participate in integration testing when needed.

Conducts usability User Acceptance Tests (UAT) with business teams.
Works independently with minimal guidance from Product Management outside of prioritization; works on a team which supports a complex, highly integrated, or higher risk product with multiple customers; may help stand-up a new product; may work on more than one product.
Is a Product advocate; can describe the Product, its value, how it works, how it is adopted, speak to upcoming changes and tailor the information to the audience.

Understand the Product Roadmap and use knowledge of future features to improve current stories and tests.
Assist in customer adoption through personal interaction and written documentation.
Identify, escalate, and remove roadblocks, triage defects, and provide clarity from customers on issues where appropriate.
Work directly with customers and team members to capture details of Feature requirements, understand use cases, collect samples, and find tests; apply knowledge of Product and business drivers to enhance work.

Write and refine stories for clarity, business value, and acceptance criteria with guidance from Product Management.
Work with Team to translate any internal "Enablers" into value driven stories.
Assess, provide input and potential improvements to Product Owner on impact to business partners' current processes and their current use of the Product.
Conduct feature mapping, gap analysis, data flow to help assess business implications of feature, tool, or platform.

Education:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 or 6 years directly relevant work experience.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Product Design Engineer
Our client is a global product leader in powertrain solutions. They focus on developing leading powertrain technologies that improve fuel economy, emissions and performance. Their facilities are located across the globe to provide local support for their diverse customer base.

Summary
Responsible for generating concepts, 3D models and detail drawings of automotive drivetrain components, subassemblies and modules. Interface between Design Supervisor and Product Engineers, assembling information from various sources into final work products. Will be responsible for multiple job assignment at a time.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Product Line Manager
Our client is seeking a Product Line to join their team in Beaverton, OR. As Product Line Manager, you will lead a portfolio of products to ensure that all products in the portfolio function well collectively in addition to interacting with other products. You will be responsible for developing and mapping out the category strategy. The ideal candidate must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the ability to partner across product management, development, marketing, and sales to successfully prioritize features to ensure customer receive the best services.

Responsibilities
Set the Product vision and strategy for the portfolio.
Drive the product strategy; engage stakeholders to align on clear, actionable plan to deliver optimal results for customers and the business; this will require a deep understanding of tool for customers and the business. This will require a deep understanding of tools and techniques for strategic planning.
Create product features/requirements, roadmaps, drive use cases, user personas, and release plans.
Identify a variety of customer needs across the product stack, drive feature prioritization and work closely with internal organizations to deliver successful products.
Support planning, execution and go-to-market activities by closely working with the sales and marketing teams.
Analyze existing technologies, new technologies, market developments and competition to identify and prioritize product market opportunities.
Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to determine strategies for product positioning, pricing, advertising and collateral development.
Collaborate with Technology to prioritize resource allocations and development priorities.
Promote solution strategy and communicate product information throughout the company, our partners and customers with passion and conviction.
Promote gathering and interpreting market insights (from field studies, market research, etc) and translate research data into actionable plans to improve product/service delivery.
Directly supervises 1-3 staff.

Qualifications
10+ years professional experience in a product management ideally within a software as service business, or experience in multi-sided network dynamics.
MBA or equivalent.
Direct experience with SaaS (or cloud based) B2B services required; subscription services preferred.
Experience leading the development of SaaS products, including the development of business cases, roadmaps, schedules, budgets and success measures.
Deep experience with product life-cycle all the way from strategy, product definition, planning and execution, and pricing & packaging.
Experience in managing agile/scrum development processes and lean methodology.
Ability to demonstrate creative problem solving, thoughtful product scoping, and flexibility in a fast-moving environment.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering, design and product marketing to set realistic goals and stay on track.
Understanding of user experience design principles and customer-centric solutions development.
Strong program management execution, results driven, and able to hold a team accountable for end results.
Excellent quantitative analysis skills (data interpretation, business model building, results tracking); able to analyze data to create actionable recommendations.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Product Line Manager
Our client is seeking a Product Line Manager to join their team in Vancouver, WA. The Product Line Manager plays a highly visible and critical role on the Product Development Team, acting as the central authority with responsibility for management of products in a specific business channel. This position is tasked with increasing profitability of existing platforms as well as developing new to market products.

They work cross-functionally to develop winning products and enhance current product platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive and proven product line management (from concept to end-of-life) experience in durable goods.

Responsibilities
Identify new product opportunities by using consumer research, market knowledge, as well as working with Marketing and Sales.
Develop and manage the product life cycle for a defined set of products and modality areas, as required by the short- and long-range strategic plans of the company.
Develop product training materials and presentations and conduct product training sessions with sales teams as required.
Perform as the subject matter expert in those defined product / modality areas, including thorough understanding of competitor products and price points as well as long range plans for development.
Oversee a product portfolio and communicate status to senior management the progress of each assigned product in the product line.
Assess product platform profitability within the business with an intense focus on product standard margin. Continuous evaluation of opportunities to improve margins is a must.
Ability to determine optimal feature set and specifications for a product and to deliver that new product at target cost to achieve the consumer value proposition.
Manage new product development project plans and deliver new products on established production timelines and budgets.
Work with all aspects of the organization in striving to meet corporate goals and objectives. And act as cross-functional support in all related departmental activities.
Work closely with Global Sourcing, Operations and Manufacturing to ensure clear communication, quality, costs and adherence to specifications/timelines throughout the manufacturing process.
Work with Sales, Finance, Global Sourcing and Engineering to develop business cases and financial analysis to justify projects.
Interact closely with Engineering and Industrial Design during development and product design validation to ensure that products conform to design integrity, established quality standards, and customer specifications.
Attend sales meeting, PR events, and tradeshows supporting launch activities for the specified product line.

Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years professional experience, with at least three years of experience in a product line management role, or equivalent
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a related field.
Ability to work effectively with all supporting functions including sales, marketing, engineering, quality, sourcing, and operations functions to advance product development projects.
Expert knowledge of product lifecycle processes.
Experience with go-to-market product campaigns.
Superb communications skills are a must.
Demonstrated success in driving results in time critical and cost sensitive environments.
Some domestic and international travel is required (10%).About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Product Manager
Our client is seeking a Product Manager to join their team in Tualatin, OR. The Product Manager is responsible for the commercial lifecycle of assigned battery and backup systems from product concept through end-of-life. The role
includes ownership of the product roadmap for assigned products and ensuring alignment with stakeholders both internal and external. The role is customer
facing as well as the primary sales support contact outside of the sales organization.
The Product manager is expected to work with cross-functional teams including
sales, marketing, applications engineering, program management, R&D, engineering, and customers to translate business opportunities into Market.
Requirements Documents (MRD) and ensure that the product roadmap is executed within the product lifecycle management process.

Responsibilities
Conduct market research and competitive analyses; bring the voice of the customer to the organization; generate product strategy as well as working with the applications engineering team to develop product concepts and MRD’s for roadmap projects.
Develop and maintain product roadmaps through working and aligning with multiple stakeholders.
Analyze customer needs and business challenges and direct the appropriate
future product direction to business management.
Work closely with the team to ensure that product requirements are
understood and communicated to stakeholders for final approval prior to execution.
Support program management to ensure on-time delivery of specific
milestones and prevent project scope creep.
Provide guidance to all levels of sales, marketing, and engineering staff on technology and industry related issues.
Apply in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and non-standard situations.
Quickly adapt to fluid situations and keep focused on delivering on goals/commitments.
Support the product lifecycle management process for all product management and marketing deliverables in each phase gate.
Ensure that product requirements are understood by all stakeholders prior to execution.
Strive to understand others’ opinions and build agreement among team.
members; utilize others’ ideas and suggestions to shape solutions rather
than open-ended conversations.
Act as the product evangelist to build awareness and understanding through
conferences, industry events, and publications.
Utilize marketing skills to develop position statements; feature-advantage benefit statements; product pricing; collateral content and business cases.
Work with engineering to develop and maintain all sales training material for assigned products.
Create and execute sales training programs for direct sales and channel partners.
Create and execute new product launch plans as well as promotional.
programs for existing products in coordination with all stakeholders.
Develop and maintain all sales tools and marketing collateral for assigned products.
Act as the primary resource outside of the sales organization for sales support on assigned products. Coordinate timely responses to sales inquiries with other team members and organizations as needed.
Support digital marketing and PR requests for assigned products.

Preferred Skills and Experience
Advanced degree.
Experience supporting full product life cycles.
Demonstrated superior written communication skills.About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Product Manager
Our client is seeking a Product manager to join their team in Portland, OR. The Product Manager will work cross functionally across sales, accounts, engineering, product and more to create, manage and deliver a high value product backlog. This product manager is expected to help create and drive new revenue in the API product line.

Qualifications
Product Management experience.
Managing a technical product.
Working with product marketing to create and market new products and capabilities.
Experience in front of and interacting with customer.
Working with an agile scrum team to manage and deliver a set of capabilities from inception to production.

Preferred
Health care experience.
Technical background.
Specific technologies to be used.
Ideally able to at least understand JSON.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Product Owner
Our client is seeking a full-time Product Owner to join the Product Management Team in Beaverton, Oregon.

The Product Owner will work as part of a team that will translate business needs and requirements into great products and services for our customers. This is an opportunity to work across mobile and web-based products for our extensive professional offerings. This individual must have excellent communication skills and the ability to successfully interact with UI/UX Designers, Product Managers, Software Developers, QA, and Scrum Masters on a daily basis. This role will drive a new product initiative around a SaaS digital freight matching platform.

Product Owner Responsibilities
Capable of being a Product Owner for development of SaaS enterprise applications with a focus on guiding the teams by become extremely knowledgeable about the team's products in order to manage all stakeholder input, using this knowledge to effectively guide product decisions.
Work closely with Product Line Managers and customers to fully understand and articulate customer needs, problems and processes to enable product definition.
Based on product definition, work with UX and development to create epics and detailed user stories.
Continuously maintain and groom product backlog to ensure user stories are well formed and include acceptance or success criteria. Split user stories which are too big and ensure that story points are entered and maintained for all stories. Ensure user stories are reflective of the technical design.
Work with Product Managers to evaluate new feature enhancement requests based on market demand, ROI and customer impact.
Serve as the primary interface of the business with the Scrum team and take ownership for ensuring backlog is maintained so each successive Sprint can be planned clearly and efficiently.
Collaborate with the developers, technical leads, Scrum Master and QA staff during product development to determine product impacts, level of effort and requirements to solve customer needs.
Work closely with counterparts in Product Management and internal stakeholders to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap.
Communicate with management and outside stakeholders. Provide written and verbal reporting to internal and external stakeholders on project status, including progress against plan, issue tracking and risk mitigation.
Work with other scrum teams to negotiate for critical path resources which may be shared by other teams.

Product Owner Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
4+ years experience working as a Business Analyst, Program Manager, Product Owner or equivalent work experience is required.
Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment is required.
Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence is required.
Experience with the Aha! roadmap visualization tool would be a plus.
Experience with the trucking ecosystem and software, such as Transportation Management Systems, would be highly beneficial.
Understanding of software design principles, tools and technologies.
Outstanding interpersonal and written communication skills.
Commitment to ongoing professional development and learning.
High productivity and effective time management.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

Production Support Engineer
Our client is seeking a Production Support Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. In the Production Support Engineer role, you will develop deep product knowledge and use your technical skills to investigate document and aid in the resolution of incidents and system defects. You will play a key role in operating, monitoring and improving the measurable uptime, availability, and performance of critical services our clients depend. As part of Defect Management, you will perform a deep analysis of system defects and use specialized tools to determine impact and urgency. You will use security tools to identify and remediate vulnerabilities while applying DevSecOps best practices. As part of our Continuous Improvement efforts, you will streamline manual processes via automation and cloud technologies.

The Production Support Engineer is part of a team that proactively monitors the uptime and availability of multiple services supporting a wide range of business-critical systems. You will take action to respond to events, drive investigations, and performs triage during live incidents.
You'll join a team of highly collaborative and passionate people on a mission to protect our clients from identity risks, who are dedicated to building a fantastic company and workplace, and who are relentlessly focused on our clients and delivering amazing results.

Responsibilities
Monitoring and Alerting
Proactively monitor key systems for general environmental health and stability using third-party monitoring tools, such as AWS dashboards, ELK stack, Dynatrace.
Investigate to identify problematic trends that may lead to poor customer experience.
Identify and respond to major incidents, which includes:
Gather pertinent information and metrics in order to validate and reproduce errors.
Provide a thorough synopsis of issues and escalate to the appropriate teams with multi-platform error validation/reproduction.

Defect Management
Assess and mitigate potential defects by following a formal defect management process and pre-defined standard operating procedures.
Log, track, and categorize system defects.
Report status on all system defects.
Use specialized tools to provide actionable intelligence that drives deeper understanding and continuous improvement of the platform.
Communications and Reporting
Communicate defect analysis results to management, Information Security, Client Services, and Engineering.
Assist in communications during outages from drafting content to dissemination for audiences ranging from internal communications to executive level leadership and customer facing external notifications.
Assist in drafting Root Cause Analysis documentation detailing the high and low-level overview of incidents from onset to resolution.
Generate and maintain site performance and availability metrics for analysis and reporting.
Development
Work closely with Dev team to scope, design, and implement larger infrastructure-related projects and review standard infrastructure changes.
Use automation to ensure repeatable tasks produce reliable and predictable results.
Address InfoSec related tickets through manual intervention or IaC (Terraform) as needed.
Review code for security compliance, infrastructure cost efficiencies, and provide feedback for improvements.

Qualifications
Experienced. 4+ years of progressive experience in SaaS operations, Applications Administration, or Technical Support role.
Educated.
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field of study or equivalent practical experience with supporting SaaS technologies in AWS.
Technical.
Experienced with AWS cloud-native services, Azure DevOps, Linux OS, Docker, Kibana, ELK stack, Dynatrace Application Monitoring, Python, Visual Studio Team Services, Terraform, Scripting, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Orchestration, and Git.
Domain knowledgeable.
Strong understanding of DevOps and Security best practices.
Team player.
You are able to respond to urgent incidents during on-call rotation.
You are flexible and able to help cover gaps in coverage when necessary. You enjoy working as part of a team.
Performer.
This position requires the employee to be a self-motivated, result- driven, and apply specialized knowledge.
Pay attention to the fine print.
A detail-oriented individual capable of working independently while maintaining a collaborative presence on the team.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Program Manager
Our client is seeking a Program Manager to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. CIS needs a strong Proj/Prog Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution.

This role will provide support to the CIS Enterprise Solutions & Delivery Team with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables for the Endpoint & Network program.

Program manager Responsibilities:
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

Key skills:
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

Additional skills and qualifications (preferred):
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).
Data center, architecture experience.
Familiarity with network topology and infrastructure build out.
An understanding of network and terminology associated with it.
Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a Program Manager to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. They are looking for someone with domain experience in finance. In this role you will work in partnership with internal and external directors to provide accurate forecasts and maintain budgets across multiple projects. You will ensure that projects are completed on schedule, within the project budget and to the scope established and agreed upon with key stakeholders and product owners.

Program Manager Responsibilities:
Manages team budget and will provide forecasting for the upcoming fiscal year and on a reoccurring monthly basis in regard to resources, SW/HW, Professional Services, etc.
Manages programs with multiple functions and works with business and internal stakeholders, product, and engineering to define milestones, dependencies, and development effort.
Developing and maintain roadmaps on a monthly basis.
Facilitating the gathering of metrics and presentation to senior leadership.
Facilitating the intake process.
Assesses changes in scope and the impacts to schedule, cost, and quality.
Own risk management and assess criticality, probability, and impact on delivery, as well as choosing mitigation plans and escalating to leadership and stakeholders when necessary.

Program Manager Qualifications:
5 years project/program management experience. PMP and CSM certification is a plus.
Experience managing medium to project budgets within tight levels of variance.
Demonstrated proficiency creating and managing project controls including roadmaps, issues/risks registers, dashboards and status updates.
Understanding of Agile practices such as scrum and Kanban.
Experience with contracts, including review and negotiation of Statements of Work.
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Program Manager
Our client is seeking a Program Manager to join their team in Vancouver, WA. This senior level leadership role provides leadership and facilitation in the oversight and execution of the Enterprise Applications strategy to design, build, and deploy enterprise systems to align with the company’s vision of business owner advocacy.

Responsibilities
Strategizes to create a long-term success plan, maximizing enterprise applications by delivering ROI for the business vision and project objectives.
Project manages and owns execution of enterprise application implementations acting as strategic project advisor for the solution to mitigate project risk for successful deployment and adoption company-wide.
Drives implementation success by being the leader, the advisor to the stakeholders, and the field, through implementation best practices and project management expertise by proactively monitoring, tracking and escalating critical project decision points involving key stakeholders.
Creates and continually improves processes and methodologies for program management, demand and supply management, project prioritization and return on investment.

Creates and maintains roadmaps, schedules and other mechanisms for communicating work delivery.
Tracks project metrics for client and internal projects throughout the department and maintains centralized accountability for management of project portfolio; works with management to provide advice on program/project planning and execution.
On-time product delivery, by facilitating requirements and test cases, prioritizing work, identifying and resolving issues, and maintaining organizational communication and change management strategy.
Create the strategy and implementation plan for the effective change management and communication that drives transparency and overall project success, ensuring the company meets the needs of the field and our customers for successful adoption.
Effectively operate and manage within a decentralized organization leveraging internal resources, on and off shore partner relationships.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
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Program Specialist
Our client is seeking a Program Specialist to join their team in Seattle WA.

Responsibilities
Identify special needs members through the completion of health screens and other resources.
Work with community outreach/member advocates to coordinate member care.
Educate providers and community resources on program components and available support services.
Educate members with special needs to foster compliance with program and positively impact outcomes.
Conduct site visits as appropriate for programs and provide support to other special programs.
Develop and modify care plans in conjunction with member, member’s family and managing physician
Development of plan specific literature and education materials in conjunction with medical director and corporate oversight
Conduct screening and risk assessment interventions per program guidelines.
Act as primary liaison for members and staff.
Assist with non-medical aspects of the member’s care, including referrals to community resources.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Nursing, Health, Behavioral Science or equivalent experience.
Master’s degree in Social Work preferred.
4+ years of community experience in directly managing and integrating the social/community needs of the members.
Experience in a managed care environment or working with people with disabilities and vulnerable populations who have chronic and complex conditions.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Programmer - Merchant Services
Our client is looking for a Programmer - Merchant Services to join their team in Seattle, WA. In this role, you will ‘wear many hats’ and will be expected to interface with Line of Business, Architecture, DBAs, Testing Teams and Operational Partners. This is an innovative position where you will spend a large part of your first few months researching, designing and debating the best solutions.

Programmer - Merchant Services Responsibilities
Lead the design, development and implementation of complex merchant services applications.
Uses previous experience as well as innovative architectural direction to develop new capabilities enabling merchant services processing.
Ensure adherence to architectural standards and practices.
Promote design of re-usable components and services.
Define and validate technical and business requirements to ensure feasibility and completeness of the technical solutions.
Transfer knowledge to others through teaching, mentoring or sharing of ideas on a day to day basis.
Must demonstrate the ability to design and code for scalability and operations.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Project Coordinator
Our client is seeking a Project Coordinator to join their team in Renton, WA. The Project Coordinator participates in relevant projects, manages minor projects, provides daily support in maintaining project documentation, coordinating meetings, produces project reports, and provides other general office support. In this role, the Project Coordinator is responsible for assisting in implementation of projects and programs assigned to the team in a manner that achieves the strategic goals and Services.

Responsibilities of the Project Coordinator
Strategic Proactively identifies and participates in staffing and department quality improvement projects.
Develops process maps and recommends process improvements to support increased efficiencies. Completes literature searches and small research projects.
Management Manages small or low complexity project tasks with minimal supervision. Coordinates all aspects of capital purchasing, appropriate operational expenditures, and assists with managing the project budget.
Operational Develops, maintains and distributes program/project information and documentation using standard documentation.
May include meeting agendas, minutes, scheduling meetings, status reports, share department documents, SharePoint, PR3 and others.
Performs assigned individual project tasks and modules and contributes to completion of team tasks accurately and timely.
Conducts training for customers on projects as appropriate.
Develops communication materials such as newsletters, emails, brochures and others by working closely with communication and marketing partners.
Runs reports and analyzes data through PR3 software to support specific project work. Plans, coordinates and facilitates for multiple project meetings.
This role will support an Active Directory Domain Consolidation project.
Mission and Values Actively supports and incorporates the mission and core values into daily activities. Treats all others with respect and demonstrates excellence, justice and compassion in daily work and relationship with others.
Service Commitment Demonstrates competency by placing high priority on service to everyone encountered.
Consistently shows the characteristic of service excellence.
Team Member Demonstrates competency by maintaining positive, constructive interpersonal relationships, and by understanding and practicing the principles of effective teamwork.
Confidentiality/Privacy Protects confidentiality/private information related to patients, members, employees and others.
Attendance and Punctuality Demonstrates performance by adhering to established policies and procedure and exhibiting the defined characteristics associated with attendance and punctuality. Respect for Diversity Demonstrates competency by knowing and applying the principles of an inclusive work environment.
Strategic Proactively identifies and participates in staffing and department quality improvement projects.
Develops process maps and recommends process improvements to support increased efficiencies. Completes literature searches and small research projects.
Management Manages small or low complexity project tasks with minimal supervision.
Coordinates all aspects of capital purchasing, appropriate operational expenditures, and assists with managing the project budget.
Operational Develops, maintains and distributes program/project information and documentation using standard documentation.
May include meeting agendas, minutes, scheduling meetings, status reports, share department documents, SharePoint, PR3 and others.
Performs assigned individual project tasks and modules and contributes to completion of team tasks accurately Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Ability to assimilate a wide variety of detail and convey it to appropriate persons for action.

Qualifications of the Project Coordinator
An Associate's degree OR equivalent education and experience in healthcare, project management, business or clinical operations or information technology.
Education in Project Management methodology based on Project Management principles preferred.
The position requires at least 3-4 years demonstrated work experience in organizing, facilitating, and assisting in planning a project or business/clinical operations.
Requires a valid driver's license, reliable transportation and current auto insurance.
Must be effective in time management while dealing with multiple projects and tasks.
The applicant must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
A self-starter, with ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required.
The applicant must be well organized, with solid experience providing project support and status reporting.
Basic to intermediate understanding of project management methodology and practices.
Ability to quickly understand and align with department and organization priorities and practices to support the department strategic priorities and goals.
Demonstrated written and oral communication that is timely, accurate, professional, consistent and targeted to the appropriate audience.
Demonstrated ability to effectively organize, prioritize and follow thru on assigned tasks and documentation with accuracy and attention to detail and meet deadlines.
Demonstrated ability to adapt well to changing environment and respond quickly to requests and needs of environment.
Ability to create original forms and instructions.
Demonstrated independence, requiring minimal supervision to accomplish assigned task or projects and manage time effectively.
Ability to use special equipment: standard office equipment such as computer with various software applications, printer, fax, photocopier, pager, scanner, cell phone, and others.
Prior experience is helpful but not required.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Project Manager
Our client is seeking a Project Manager to join their team in Renton, WA. This position will lead an affiliation and integration initiative, specific to Active Directory Consolidation. This role requires expert level communication, organization and critical thinking skills. A self-starter, with ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required. The applicant must be well organized, with solid experience providing executive level presentations and status reporting. In addition, will have demonstrated experience and familiarity with Active Directory, Windows Engineering, Server Environments and Citrix.

The Project Manager is accountable for one or more large, diverse and complex projects in the areas of information technology, quality improvement, strategic objectives and goals. This role ensures projects are planned and executed in a manner that supports the mission, integration and collaboration across the health system, and meets the organizational objectives.
This position reports to the Portfolio Leader, IS Portfolio & Project Management Office, and must establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels in Strategic and Management Services, as well as with other internal staff, vendors and others.

Qualifications
Ten or more years of experience leading large, diverse and often complex projects is required.
Expertise and experience with Project Management methodology based on project management principles required.
Experience in incorporating process improvement methodologies into large scale projects; Certifications in process optimization such as Six Sigma, Lean, CQIA or other nationally recognized certifications preferred.
Experience facilitating complex decisions making among multiple executive stakeholders with different interests and priorities is essential. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.
judgment, problem solving and cognitive skills.
Skilled in strategic planning, program management, group motivation, discipline and diplomacy.
Superb written and oral communication skills on interpersonal and technical levels.
Experienced in vendor/contract management and negotiations.
Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and align with an organization, its structure and priorities. Advanced leadership skills, with the ability to successfully serve as a coach and mentor to colleagues and others.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, prioritize work, manage time and respond effectively to a rapidly changing environment.
Exercises sound political and environmental judgment as appropriate to support successful project implementation.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning. Demonstrated success managing other project managers, project portfolios and/or multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated experience in business development and/or strategic and tactical planning and execution including marketing, communications and financial planning.
Demonstrated experience as a speaker in a professional presentation environment, such as conferences and association meetings.
Experience developing and implementing benchmarks and metrics in support of improved quality and process design.
Excellent written and oral communication that is excellent in the areas of timeliness, accuracy, professionalism.
Demonstrated ability to manage projects with multiple project teams, product development lifecycle, or quality lifecycle.
Demonstrated ability to inform and influence senior leadership, management and individuals in various parts of the organization to work toward successful outcomes.
Ability to understand business or clinical strategies and plans, and their relationship to organizational strategies.
Ability to analyze and report on foreseeable future implications of current decisions.
Ability to utilize special equipment such as telephone and personal computer equipment; software including business applications, electronic medical record, practice management, financial management, project management and reporting. C peripherals and other office or AV equipment such as digital projectors, fax, scanner, copier and others.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Project Manager
Our client is seeking a Project Manager to join their team in Renton, WA. This position will lead an affiliation and integration initiative, specific to Active Directory Consolidation. This role requires expert level communication, organization and critical thinking skills. A self-starter, with ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required. The applicant must be well organized, with solid experience providing executive level presentations and status reporting. In addition, will have demonstrated experience and familiarity with Active Directory, Windows Engineering, Server Environments and Citrix.

The Project Manager is accountable for one or more large, diverse and complex projects in the areas of information technology, quality improvement, strategic objectives and goals. This role ensures projects are planned and executed in a manner that supports the mission, integration and collaboration across the health system, and meets the organizational objectives.
This position reports to the Portfolio Leader, IS Portfolio & Project Management Office, and must establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels in Strategic and Management Services, as well as with other internal staff, vendors and others.

Qualifications
Ten or more years of experience leading large, diverse and often complex projects is required.
Expertise and experience with Project Management methodology based on project management principles required.
Experience in incorporating process improvement methodologies into large scale projects; Certifications in process optimization such as Six Sigma, Lean, CQIA or other nationally recognized certifications preferred.
Experience facilitating complex decisions making among multiple executive stakeholders with different interests and priorities is essential. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.
judgment, problem solving and cognitive skills.
Skilled in strategic planning, program management, group motivation, discipline and diplomacy.
Superb written and oral communication skills on interpersonal and technical levels.
Experienced in vendor/contract management and negotiations.
Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and align with an organization, its structure and priorities. Advanced leadership skills, with the ability to successfully serve as a coach and mentor to colleagues and others.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, prioritize work, manage time and respond effectively to a rapidly changing environment.
Exercises sound political and environmental judgment as appropriate to support successful project implementation.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning. Demonstrated success managing other project managers, project portfolios and/or multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated experience in business development and/or strategic and tactical planning and execution including marketing, communications and financial planning.
Demonstrated experience as a speaker in a professional presentation environment, such as conferences and association meetings.
Experience developing and implementing benchmarks and metrics in support of improved quality and process design.
Excellent written and oral communication that is excellent in the areas of timeliness, accuracy, professionalism.
Demonstrated ability to manage projects with multiple project teams, product development lifecycle, or quality lifecycle.
Demonstrated ability to inform and influence senior leadership, management and individuals in various parts of the organization to work toward successful outcomes.
Ability to understand business or clinical strategies and plans, and their relationship to organizational strategies.
Ability to analyze and report on foreseeable future implications of current decisions.
Ability to utilize special equipment such as telephone and personal computer equipment; software including business applications, electronic medical record, practice management, financial management, project management and reporting. C peripherals and other office or AV equipment such as digital projectors, fax, scanner, copier and others.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Project Manager
Our client is seeking a full-time Project Manager for both our Salem and Tualatin, Oregon offices. The focus of this position is to lead the development of the company’s public works and transportation design services to local jurisdictions.
We offer a unique casual workplace that balances hard work with fun while offering a supportive work environment with an excellent benefit package and an outstanding opportunity for personal and professional growth, including potential for firm ownership.

Responsibilities
Identify, cultivate, and pursue new clients and business opportunities.
Manage and supervise engineering staff.
Lead and actively participate in developing public sector proposals.
Coordinate and manage projects with principals and staff.
Develop and manage project scope to deliver projects on time and within budget.
Provide technical leadership for project design team.
Design, prepare, and lead the development of preliminary and final plans and specifications.
Provide QA/QC review of deliverables.
Manage and be responsible for all components of the project from proposal through construction.
Perform site and infrastructure design per county/city standards, maintaining good communication with the planning/engineering staff of the jurisdiction to minimize future changes and misunderstandings.
Actively participate in monthly in-house Project Management Meetings.

Qualifications
10+ years of experience in civil engineering design related to public projects
BS in Civil Engineering or equivalent degree (required)
Oregon Civil Engineer’s License (required)
Ability to identify and pursue business development opportunities
Project experience with local and/or state agencies in Oregon
Knowledge and familiarity with local codes and agency standards
Have a basic understanding of financial reports, solid time management, and follow through skills, and the proven ability to manage a multi-disciplinary team with a positive, flexible approach.
Various civil engineering technical skills required including good organizational skills.
Good written and oral communication skills including proposal and report writing.
Self-motivated, proactive, and detail-oriented.
Ability to work quickly, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
Takes personal responsibility for completing quality work within budgets and timelines.
Experience and or training in project management.
Civil 3D and/or MicroStation/InRoads design experience.
Project experience with local and/or state agencies in Oregon.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Python Developer
Our client is seeking a Python Developer to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. They are building petabyte-class solutions that consume fast moving streams from eCommerce, retail and partner channels and power the critical decisions that drive our business. They are building the Cloud Platform for Data and Analytics on AWS that fuels digital transformation.

Python Developer Qualifications
Be a great teammate on an agile/SCRUM team that sets and meets aggressive goals.
Mentor new and less experienced developers to advance their proficiency.
Leverage expert development skills and solid design skills to deliver reliable, scalable, performant solutions with modern tooling, data structures and algorithms.
Work with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to deliver solutions that enable digital transformation.
5+ years developing software systems that operate at scale.
3+ years developing software solutions w/ Python.
2+ years developing Platforms on a commercial cloud.
2+ years developing REST APIs and web services.
2+ years with modern CI/CD patterns (e.g. Blue/Green).
In depth experience with AWS technologies.
BS/MS in CS, a related field or equivalent experience.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

QA Associate I/II - Document Control Specialist
The Document Control Specialist’s primary responsibilities include activities related to the identification, collection, distribution and filing of controlled documents. Key contributions include writing, revising and maintaining document control procedures and participation in the development and deployment of document control tools.

QA Associate I/II - Document Control Specialist Responsibilities
Ensure that released documentation supporting manufacturing and quality, is current, accurate, and processed in a timely manner.
Issue production batch records and labels for manufacturing operations.
Serve as secondary point of contact for documentation and records.
Provide support for the development and maintenance of site documentation, procedures, work instructions, and templates.
Maintain the document storage room, and manage off-site archiving of documents.
Create and approve document change requests, manage document workflows, and release documents
Write and maintain document control procedures.
Participate in the development and roll-out of document control tools.
Follow policies, SOPs and work instructions to support the document approval process.
Develop and deliver training regarding document control processes and system changes.
Execute the process for identifying, collecting, distributing, and filing controlled documents for the satellite files.
Support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections.
Perform routine and ad hoc document control metric reporting and analysis.
Monitor documentation system function; investigate and coordinate with IT on issues.
Provide communication of the status of deliverables to customers, management, and stakeholders.
Work on complex documentation problems, analyzes procedures and data to create appropriate solutions.
Additional responsibilities not listed may be required of this position.

QA Associate I/II - Document Control Specialist Qualifications
Ability to exercise judgment within defined practices and policies in performing document control functions with input from supervisor.
Ability to conduct work within limits of defined practices and procedures.
Ability to work on several concurrent projects at the same time.
Ability to work independently on routine work tasks, and under only general instructions on new assignments.
Ability to interact constructively and efficiently with co-workers within and across departments.
Demonstrated deep understanding of basic documentation concepts.
Deep understanding of cGMPs and quality systems.
Experience with relevant software and databases.
Innovative, proactive, and resourceful; committed to quality and continuous improvement.
AA or BS in science-related field desired; combination of education and related work experience required.
3 – 5 years of QA or related document control experience required.
Previous Quality Systems Administration experience required.
Experience with relevant software and databases required (e.g., MasterControl Document Management System, TrackWise).
Experience interacting with FDA or other regulatory agencies preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Our client is seeking a QA Automation Lead Engineer to join their dynamic team in Beaverton, OR. The QA Automation Lead will be responsible for providing domain technical expertise on QA Automation, Performance Testing and CI/ CD for SAP S/4 HANA systems. This role will be responsible for the architecture strategy and oversee development and maintenance of enterprise automation, performance and CI/ CD framework.

QA Automation Lead Engineer Qualifications:
Experience working on Test Suite and BPCA for SolMan 7.2 with S/4 HANA managed system.
Experience in configuring QA CI/CD pipelines is a must.
Experience developing SLAs, KPIs & ROI for Automation and Performance Testing.
Experience in building and implementing testing strategies, developing test plans, risk-assessment/risk-based-testing as well as defect management.
Experience planning and executing the preparation and build of test data using automated tools to minimize testing downtime.
Experience in implementing Change Based Testing.
Experience with high level communication across senior leadership.
Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical resources as well as mentoring Agile team members across multiple product teams.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to shifting priorities and think outside the box to resolve issues.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in service virtualization and synthetic data generation is a strong plus.
Provide opinion on latest testing tools, technologies, and processes.Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

QA Data Analyst Responsibilities
Test SQL data, all day, every day.
Confirm the accuracy of initial import of data involving thousands of records
Confirm the accuracy of various data updates and extracts, which involves understanding the logic of complex queries/stored procedures based on requirements, writing appropriate test queries, and executing them to verify the logic and data
Work closely with business partners and the application development team in eliciting project requirements to create test cases
Review requirements specifications and identify gaps and inconsistencies
Work closely with development engineers, business analysts, and other QA team members to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects; verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner

***Ready to send in your resume? In a few sentences, tell us why you love finding bugs!***

QA Data Analyst Qualifications
3+ years of experience in database testing with the ability to understand, write, and execute very complex SQL queries, and understand the logic of stored procedures
1+ year of experience working with T-SQL, or ANSI-89 / ANSI-92.
T-SQL knowledge includes: JOINs, Indexing, Advanced stored procedures and user defined functions programming, and Triggers
A tendency to question everything and trust but verify.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

QA Data Analyst Responsibilities
Test SQL data, all day, every day.
Confirm the accuracy of initial import of data involving thousands of records
Confirm the accuracy of various data updates and extracts, which involves understanding the logic of complex queries/stored procedures based on requirements, writing appropriate test queries, and executing them to verify the logic and data
Work closely with business partners and the application development team in eliciting project requirements to create test cases
Review requirements specifications and identify gaps and inconsistencies
Work closely with development engineers, business analysts, and other QA team members to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects; verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner

***Ready to send in your resume? In a few sentences, tell us why you love finding bugs!***

QA Data Analyst Qualifications
3+ years of experience in database testing with the ability to understand, write, and execute very complex SQL queries, and understand the logic of stored procedures
1+ year of experience working with T-SQL, or ANSI-89 / ANSI-92.
T-SQL knowledge includes: JOINs, Indexing, Advanced stored procedures and user defined functions programming, and Triggers
A tendency to question everything and trust but verify.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

QA Test Lead
Our client is seeking a QA Test Lead to join their tea in Portland, OR. This role will be responsibilities for creating detailed a well-structured test strategy, and executing plans and test cases, identifying, reporting and tracking defects.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Quality Assurance Engineer
Our client Is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to perform testing and analysis tasks on the overall architecture of hardware, software, and networking systems.

Quality Assurance Engineer Responsibilities
Develop, implement, and maintain test plans and procedures for system integration. Perform usability testing for total system performance, reliability, scalability, and security. Maintain a record of test progress and test results. Write test cases or test scenarios that align to business requirements, functional specifications, release notes, use cases and/or user stories.
Test business applications following detailed test cases and scripts in an effort to identify software defects through manual or automated tests.
Identify, investigate, report and track defects to resolution.
Participate in multiple concurrent testing efforts.
Assist with departmental documentation as needed.
Provide clear and concise status back to project team and department management.
Provide input to Test Approaches, Test Plans and Release Findings according to department standards.
Ensure effective and continuous communication (both written and oral) takes place between QA and other departments.
Ensure accurate, timely and tested releases are implemented into the production environment.
Develop an understanding of business applications and system components.
May be asked to coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as subject matter expert.
Demonstrates compliance with all bank regulations for assigned job function and applies to designated job responsibilities – knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Follows all policies and procedures, compliance regulations, and completes all required annual or job-specific training.
Maintain a working knowledge of Bank's written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.
May be asked to coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as subject matter expert.
Actively learns, demonstrates, and fosters the corporate culture in all actions and words.
Takes personal initiative and is a positive example for others to emulate.
May perform other duties as assigned.

Quality Assurance Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or relevant equivalent work experience
1 – 3 years financial or banking experience.
Experience working with technology teams in a testing role.
Experience with testing methodologies.
Ability to work in a team and autonomously as needed.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.
Ability to quickly learn new business applications.
Ability to train and present to small and large audiences or has the interest in learning to train and present.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Quality Control - Incoming Inspection Role
Our client is looking for a Quality Control - Incoming Inspection Role to join their team in Portland, OR.

Quality Control - Incoming Inspection Role Responsibilities
Quality Control Test and Inspection of incoming materials.
Perform mechanical inspection for defects.
Testing of electrical and data cables.
Verify manifests/packing lists against product contents.
Update test and inspection procedures as needed.
Report defects to supervisor.
Present quality status to Production and Quality teams.
Have primary responsibility for the quality levels maintained in company products.
Performance requires physical attendance.
Other duties as assigned.

Quality Control - Incoming Inspection Role Qualifications
2+ years QC experience, required.
Experience with simple mechanical inspection, required.
Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, required.
Experience with measurement and inspection tools, required.
Experience with Microsoft Windows platforms, required.
Independent professional that can perform job assignment with limited supervision.
Ability to lift and carry 35 pounds of test equipment at least 40 feet.
Ability to multi-task and manage various project related duties.
Strong work ethic.
Touch typist – minimum of 25 to 30 WPM.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.

Pay Rate: $18-$20/hr
Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Quality Control Technician Qualifications
High School or Equivalent
2+ years QC or testing experience, required.
Experience with simple mechanical inspection.
Experience with Microsoft Windows platforms, required.
Experience with PC hardware, required.
Experience with Networking Devices, desired (Switches, Routers, Firewalls).
Independent professional that can perform job assignment with limited supervision.
Ability to lift and carry 35 pounds of test equipment at least 40 feet.
Ability to multi-task and manage various project related duties.
Strong work ethic.
Touch typist – minimum of 25 to 30 WPM.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

React.js Developer
Our Consulting client will be hiring a React.js Developer to join their team of Software Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to develop and grow systems that reach millions of consumers.

Ability to work in a Node.js ecosystem. The application is hosted in the cloud (AWS), this position will call cloud-based services from the Front End (not spinning up cloud services). Most important is really solid in basic JavaScript development, you can learn a new framework like React.

Their Engineers don't just code, they know WHY they use one tool over another.

This is a values-based, family company, with leadership committed to empowering employees and providing an excellent work/life balance. People who thrive here want to learn the breadth and depth of technologies working on various projects.

React.js Developer Qualifications
5+ years of software development experience in a professional setting.
Experience with AWS technologies like Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Kinesis.
Work in a micro services architecture, use domain driven design and implement RESTful services using Node.js.
Ability to work in a Node.js ecosystem.

Preferred:
Experience with NoSQL stores like Dynamo DB.
Continuously integrate, write unit tests, perform static code analysis, create automated integration and performance tests.
Deploy and support services in a distributed/cloud-based environment (CircleCI or Jenkins is a plus).
Has developed and worked with monitoring tools like New Relic, Splunk, etc.
Work in a highly collaborative environment where you’ll be able to share ideas with other engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Release Engineer
You will own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications across various portfolios. The releases can be inclusive of application updates, operating system patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades, Projects and Programs. Where necessary you’ll provide tools and services to help product management and project teams manage and deploy releases into production.

Release Engineer Responsibilities
Forward Plan the release windows and cycles across a portfolio.
Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates.
Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
Manages the build process for multiple concurrent releases.
Design, engineer, maintain, and Improve automated build and deployment process.
Manages and maintains various software feature branches using a Source Control System.
Participate in deployment & configuration of the application as needed.

Release Engineer Qualifications
Must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
Must have the proven ability to resolve build issues, e.g. merge conflicts, compilation errors, missing dependencies.
Must have Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, and custom deployment tools.
Must have experience supporting Microsoft based server installations.
Must have acted in the roll of Release Manager/Engineer for 4+ years.
Familiarity with:
SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services,
PowerShell,
OctopusDeploy,
Source control with Git,
T-SQL queries,
Active Directory,
Atlassian JIRA and Confluence,
Experience with Microsoft .Net C# and JAVA development.
General understanding of ITIL Foundations V2 or V3.
Familiarity with SDLC, Quality Standards, and Best Practices.
Effective organizational, problem solving and project management abilities.
Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills, with both technical and non-technical team members.
Good computer skills, including but not limited to: knowledge of multiple software programs (i.e. MS Word, MS Excel, Jira, etc.), operating systems, web browsers, basic networking skills, and b